Create a PowerPoint presentation discussing the Barnum Effect. For this presentation option, you will integrate scholarly research on the Barnum Effect with a mini-experiment that you will conduct on friends and family.
- Collect data from 5 people on the Barnum Effect by giving them the test found at the psych.fullerton.edu website
- Next, ask your participants to rate the accuracy of their results on a scale of 1 to 10
(1 = not accurate at all; 10 = completely accurate). - Record the participants’ ratings/results and include them as part of your presentation.
- Once you have told the participants their results, you may also include follow-up questions to obtain qualitative data on their reaction to the accuracy of the test or the Barnum Effect. Feel free to include those qualitative data in your presentation as well.
- Integrate the data you collected from your 5 participants with the scholarly research that you found on the Barnum Effect into a single, well-organized presentation.
- Include at least 1 peer-reviewed resource, in addition to your textbook. (That’s at least 2 scholarly sources total!) Discuss whether or not your findings are consistent with the scholarly sources that you cite. If not, offer an explanation of why.
