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Blog Post 6: Data Collection
Create a blog post describing your field data collection activities. How many replicates did you sample? Have you had any problems implementing your sampling design? Have you noticed any ancillary patterns that make you reflect on your hypothesis?
I had to change my collection design, as after trying to collect data a few times, I realized it wouldn’t work the way I was doing it. I am trying to see if there is a correlation between where fruit plants grow and where poison ivy grows and if there are any other contributing factors for where the poison ivy is growing. I had tried out just randomly selecting plots to check for poison ivy and fruit plants, using a random generator app. The problem is that then I don’t always get many poison ivy plants in my data. (I tried this method a few times). My last attempt at data collection involved instead, systematic sampling along a transect. This is what I had tried on my very first data collection, but I had to add more quadrants this time to get enough data.
