Hyper-Criminal Juice
Dr. Doom thinks that a special juice will make people quicker. He creates two groups
of 60 henchmen each and assigns each group to rob as many banks as they could in a
week. Both groups were given something to drink. Group A is given the special juice
to drink while they work Group B is given a juice that is not the special juice. Both
groups were told that they were getting the special Hyper-Criminal juice. After a
week, Dr. Doom counts how many banks each group has robbed. Group A robbed 31
banks, Group B-robbed 43 banks. Henchmen in both groups reported that they felt like
they were working faster because of the juice.
1 Which henchmen were in the control group?
2. What is the independent variable?
3. What is the dependent variable?
4. What should Dr. Dooms' conclusion be?
5. Why do you think that people in group B reported that they felt like the juice helped even though
it was not the special juice (besides being scared of Dr. Doom)?