Does Weaving Through Traffic Actually Get You To Your Destination Faster?
There were both some strengths and weaknesses when it comes to this experiment. First, one strength of this experiment is that it was tested in the real world. This is a strength because it shows the applicability of this experiment to everyday life. A weakness in this experiment is that it was only tested once. This does not help the experiment because testing an experiment one time does not prove if it was successful or not. To fix this, the people testing the experiment should have tested it multiple times and collected the data and maybe averaged the numbers. Another strength of this experiment is that I believe the same cars were used for both variables, ensuring that one car does not have a physical advantage over the other. A second weakness to this experiment is the people only used one road to test it. This is a weakness because maybe that specific road is an outlier in which the results are not accurate to what the majority of the results would be when compared to other roads. While this experiment had both its weaknesses and strengths, I do not think that it would be a reliable experiment based off of one test.
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