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The Model Should Taste Two Cups Of Coffee Case Study Questions

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2. What reason did you give for why it is important to offer the model more than two cups (one with the milk added first and one with the milk added second)? Was your answer the same as Fisher's answer? Based on the essay, please describe Fisher's answer to this question. 2.) One reason that I gave for why it is important to offer the model more that 2 cups of coffee was that it is important because if we only offered her 2 then she'd have a 50/50 chance and we cant take the risk of her just guessing, so we need to offer her more than 2 so we are sure that she is actually able to tell the difference in the coffee's taste. Yes my answer was the same as Fisher's. His answer was that the model, or in his case the "tea lady" is supposed …show more content…

How many cups did you say the model would taste? How many cups did Fisher say that the "tea lady" in the story should taste? Please describe fully Fisher's answer to this question, including any mathematical considerations. Was your answer the same as Fisher's answer? If not, how is it different? ( Mr.Hicks I am attempting to Analyze similarities/differences between procedures or solutions, from the ANALYZE section of hess' cognitive rigor matrix under Level 3.) 3.) I said the model should taste 10 cups of coffee. Fisher said the tea lady should taste 8 cups of tea. Fisher's answer to this question was that the "tea lady" should taste 8 cups of coffee because there are 70 possible outcomes of the order in which they are presented for her tasting. Fisher said "There are 70 ways of choosing a group of 4 objects out of 8… namely that if we were to choose the 4 objects in succession we should have successively 8,7,6,5 objects to choose from, and could make our succession of choices 8 times 7 times 6 times 5 or in 1680 ways." My answere was not exactly the same as fishers but it was quite similar. He chose 8 as the amount of cups served, but I chose 10. We both did choose a reasonable amount of cups that should be served and we both have a fair amount of possible outcomes in which the coffee/ tea could be …show more content…

Fisher doesn't believe that all of the cups should be the same because he states that it is "impossible" to make every cup the same. Fisher says that each cup changes and has its differences from the next one. He says, "It is possible that the cup will differ perceptibly in the thickness or smoothness of the material." Fisher also says that during the experiment we don't really need to pay attention to the cups every detail. He says to pay attention too the important things like the amout of coffee and milk

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