Science Buddies: "Ask an Expert"

My 7th grader wants to do this for his school science fair. He wants to do an adult vs student comparision as well. should he tabulate his results for each image ( as shown in your procedure, e.g. image #1: 50% volunteers recognized it correctly), or should he do it for each participant (e.g. participant 1 recognized 11/20 images, participant 2 recognized 12/20 correctly and so on).


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Hi there,

If you care about the individual responses and using the table to generate the percentage that you listed, you may want to stick to the table but use two: one for adults and one for students. It will also depend on the clarity that you want from the data. If you have a lot of participants, it might be useful to consolidate the table so that you won't have to format a lot of data into one table. Personally, I would go with the second option with individual participants, but it will depend on how you want the tables to look in the end. Hope this helps.

Thanks.
any suggestions on where we can get the real and AI images to use for his experiment?

is this hypothesis ok??or is it too long??
If adults and students are shown a mixture of real photographs and AI-generated images, then both groups will correctly identify the image type only about 50–60% of the time, which is close to random guessing; however, students are expected to perform slightly better than adults because they are often more familiar with AI-generated media and online imagery.

Hello,
For finding datasets of real and AI images, I would suggest using Kaggle (https://www.kaggle.com/). Kaggle contains thousands of datasets that are often used for training machine learning models, but these datasets could definitely be used in your experiment. I think your hypothesis sounds pretty good! It both makes a general claim and compares adults and students.
Have fun with this project!
Carissa