1. A group of college students were given a short course in speed-reading.

The
instructor was curious if a monetary incentive would influence performance on a
reading test taken at the end of the course. Half the students were offered $5 for
obtaining a certain level of performance on the test, the other half were not
offered money.

2. An experiment was designed to investigate the effects of fertillizer on the growth

of plants. Two populations of plants were grown. Both populations were the same
type and size of plant and were given the same amount of water, grown in the
same kind of soil, and kept in the same level of temperature and sunlight.

Plants in Population A, only, were given a new type of fertilizer.

Plants in population B were given nothing.

Every day, the plants' heights were measured.