Asked • 06/16/21

Design of experiment to test customer perception.

A pet supply company is trying to determine whether kittens could be subtly tinted to improve their customer satisfaction. That is, if the kittens were dyed very slightly bluish, or reddish, would customers prefer them to untinted kittens? Design an experiment, using uniform-patterned (or at any rate, randomly chosen) kittens to test whether 1) customers prefer a slightly tinted kitten to an uncolored one, 2) which color and level or tinting is most effective, and 3) can this be done such that customers are unaware that the kittens have been tinted?

State all the variables in your test plan, the number of kittens to be marketed, and the criteria for rejecting the null hypothesis.

Lastly, assert whether this experiment is ethical, or unethical. Use reasoned arguments, including consideration of opposite views, and data from practices in the real world to support your assertion.

Andrew D.

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This question is probably not well-suited to this type of platform. Are you looking for advice on how to approach this? Questions like "is the experiment ethical?" rely on your own subjective values and ability to justify them with reasoned arguments. As far as setting up an experiment and testing hypotheses, that is also somewhat up to you. For instance, choosing an appropriate significance level is not an exact science so much as it is an art. Statistics can differ from traditional mathematics in a number of ways mostly due to the uncertainty aspect.
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Landon W.

I agree with Andrew in that this question is much to involved for a single Q&A post. I did notice that the question asks for a specific number of kittens to be marketed, so once you have chosen a significance level you will most likely want to run a power calculation to determine how many kittens that would be needed to reach the appropriate significane level.
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Ram K. answered • 11/17/23

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