Animal Behavior
Contents Sample Size, Results, and Replication

To be meaningful, your experiment must include a large enough sample size to be representative of a general condition.

Your results must be measurable! Are you going to count, measure, find the mass? You must devise some way to quantify the results.

You must also replicate — do several repetitions of — the experiment. Like a large sample size, this lets you verify your result.

Continue to Other Considerations.