For this assignment you will pick a myth/superstition, discuss ways to test your myth/superstition, and then you’ll put your myth/superstition to the test. Watch one (or more) of the following shark videos. Shark Feeding Frenzy Defense | MythBusters (Links to an external site.) MythBusters: Underwater Shark Experiment (360 Video) (Links to an external site.) MythBusters: Sharks Everywhere! (360 Video) (Links to an external site.) MythBusters: Shark Shipwreck (360 Video) (Links to an external site.) Captioned/transcripted versions of two MythBusters videos (Links to an external site.) are available. For this paper, you will do something similar, although not nearly as complex :-).
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This paper should be about 1.5 pages long. You are welcome to use either single or double spacing (or something in between), and you may set your margins and font as you like, but please don’t use font smaller than 10 pt. Please proofread, spell check, and grammar check your work. If your spelling or grammar makes it hard for your instructor to understand you, you may lose points. Begin by picking a myth or superstition to investigate.
For this assignment, assume that your myth is plausible. Please do not pick a myth or superstition that requires people to eat or drink anything and please do not pick a myth that involves possible death or harm to participants (even if death or harm is unlikely) – it is just too easy to violate ethics unintentionally. Here are some websites on superstitions that might be helpful: Silly Superstitions (Links to an external site.) Committee for Skeptical Inquiry: Superstition Bash (Links to an external site.)
Reminder: Students who have taken this course previously may not re-submit previously submitted work without the permission of the instructor.
