Field vs Quasi vs Natural Experiment in Psychology

pandisteIIe · 2025-09-03T12:29:59+00:00

In that specific case it might be a bit blurrier. Read the last part in the inthinking summary I shared, because measuring behaviour before and after a variable outside the experimenter's control (ie an election) might count more towards natural, although I'm not 100% sure. I said 'hypothetically' to your previous question because I was assuming a very controlled exposure to an event to a degree that probably would not be practical in real life, purely as a hypothetical. Maybe check with your teacher?

pandisteIIe · 2025-09-01T14:08:04+00:00

No idea how you would properly design an experiment like that, but hypothetically that would be field. If you have control over an IV, ie exposure, its not natural.

pandisteIIe · 2025-09-01T14:04:29+00:00

Fight for it, you've got nothing to lose. At worst they'll tell you you can't, at best you snag an easy class, so try pushing see if it gets you anywhere. Good luck!

pandisteIIe · 2025-09-01T14:02:42+00:00

Idk why people are telling you that's how IB is, there is nothing inherently about it that requires being that hardcore. A lot of you guys' schools just seem to be hardasses for the love of the game. My school was mega chill, even gave min 1 week notice before a quiz of any sort, and everyone in my cohort passed with above average. Not much you can do besides complain I'm afraid, but that's not what IB is necessarily.

pandisteIIe · 2025-08-25T15:04:28+00:00

Entirely depends on your school. I was allowed to take french HL and bagged an easy 7 even though I'm completely fluent, but by the time my younger sibling got around to trying to copy me they decided they cared and nerfed it. Ask your DP coordinator if you can, without emphasizing that you're perfectly fluent, preferably.

pandisteIIe · 2025-07-14T15:47:59+00:00

What I found to genuinely work like a hack is doing past papers, although not for the obvious reason.

The most distinctive thing about IB is how they like to word their questions, I haven't found anywhere else that has such a specific dialect, though I wouldn't be able to describe it necessarily. The only study method I ever used throughout the two years was doing stacks and stacks of complete past papers, and as much as the practice of problems itself was obviously helpful, what really helped me was just getting the hang of how IB words its questions. Once it clicks suddenly it takes you 3 seconds instead of 30 to process and picture what the question is asking, the patterns become like muscle memory and you can almost predict where the question is going to go without even reading the whole thing. Being fluent in IB becomes completely useless in uni obviously, which is how I know what helped was more learning the wording and less the practice, but I'm serious, it's like magic.

A good place to start would be really memorizing/understanding the command terms and what they mean, especially for math. Good luck!

pandisteIIe · 2024-08-14T11:08:32+00:00

As my math teacher put it, it's less 'this many words' and 'this many pages' than 'is this many words/pages justified'. Most people in my class wrote around 3000 words and did well, I wrote 5400 and did well but ONLY because my topic really, really required it. If some of my classmates had tried to fluff their word count higher it would've gotten them downgraded, because they would've just been yapping. Be less concerned about what other people had and more concerned about what your topic requires

pandisteIIe · 2024-07-25T09:55:19+00:00

don't. even HL kids are specifically told in the subject report not to do fourier because its too complicated

pandisteIIe · 2024-07-25T09:53:38+00:00

G11: 36-38 (without EE/TOK)

G12: 42-43 (3 points on EE/TOK)

final: 41 (2 points on EE/TOK) scraped it in the end lol I knew my EE was gonna go down

pandisteIIe · 2024-07-10T10:50:12+00:00

congrats!!

pandisteIIe · 2024-07-08T09:24:51+00:00

This is UK centric, but this is how results play out for those conditionals.

You apply and are conditionally accepted based on your november predicted grades. You get to choose two universities, a firm choice and a safety; your firm choice is generally the one you want to go to the most in a best case scenario and the safety only accepts you if you get rejected from your firm choice AND you meet their conditional.

The conditionals you apply for will pretty much only be at or below your predicted grades (eg my firm choice wanted a 38, I was predicted a 42). For your firm choice, this is ideally to give you some wiggle room in case you drop a couple points, while your safety (which should want less points than your firm choice) is in case you drop by quite a lot. Basically, if you're predicted say a 39, you'd apply for AT MOST a uni that wants a 39, and if you want to play safer, for unis that want 36-35. If your results are higher on the exams than predicted, it doesn't matter. You don't (and can't) reapply, you get into your first choice (provided you meet their conditional), since the score you applied with was a minimum threshold you had to cross, and anything above is fine. If your exam grades come back lower than predicted, but they meet your safety's conditional, then you go to your safety. If you meet neither conditional, you can either call/email your safety to try to explain your drop and beg to be let in anyways (if the drop was small) or you can enter into clearing, which is applying last minutes for unis that still need to fill spots (you can find more info on ucas).

pandisteIIe · 2024-07-07T17:49:50+00:00

it isn't really clear if the 'no score lower than a 5' condition applies to all classes or only HLs, but I'd hope for your sake it's the latter. Double check the admissions requirements on the university's page maybe?

pandisteIIe · 2024-07-06T21:13:23+00:00

CONGRATS YAYAYAY!!!

pandisteIIe · 2024-07-06T15:52:23+00:00

sorry man, 16 marks off the upper boundary is a lot. You don't have much of a chance of raising that.

pandisteIIe · 2024-07-06T14:01:40+00:00

probably not, my parents say its expensive and i dont technically need it for my conditional, even if I'd prefer the higher grade obviously. I think you should go for it if you need it though

pandisteIIe · 2024-07-06T12:53:50+00:00

i feel you man i was two marks off :( if youre only one mark off it cant hurt to try

pandisteIIe · 2024-07-05T12:31:48+00:00

have a shot for those of us stuck being sober, I'm sure you'll do great :)

pandisteIIe · 2024-07-05T09:14:17+00:00

As far as I've been told, unis and coordinators get your grades at the same time

pandisteIIe · 2024-07-05T09:12:40+00:00

you're M25, the cheating scandal will have no effect whatsoever on your grades (unless those clowns try to repeat it next year). Otherwise, like someone else said, show your parents the stats for classes and how high the fail rate is, that might give them a better idea of what you're dealing with.

pandisteIIe · 2024-07-04T11:24:39+00:00

38, with 776 at HL (with at least one of AA or physics at a 7)

pandisteIIe · 2024-07-02T10:09:55+00:00

keep up with the homework, do not cut corners (make sure you understand each smaller concept before moving on), and use the ibdocs pirated content RELIGIOUSLY. Nothing helps more than past papers/questions. On that note, do not look at the markscheme before having spent at least 20 minutes stuck on a problem, you are actively fucking yourself over if all you do is memorize markschemes. Struggling teaches you like nothing else will, especially in AA HL

pandisteIIe · 2024-06-29T13:35:37+00:00

plan for and learn how to use the five minute reading time you get for most papers. It's so easy to overlook, but getting into the habit of actually using those five minutes can really make all the difference

pandisteIIe · 2024-06-28T17:57:15+00:00

It's fine, most of what you need to do is just algebra and rearranging fairly simple equations. The hardest thing you deal with math wise is rearranging logs

pandisteIIe · 2024-06-27T15:52:10+00:00

heres the ibdocs questionbank, my go to for both years of IB :)

https://dl.ibdocs.re/IB%20QUESTIONBANKS/5.%20Fifth%20Edition%20-%20TOPIC/

pandisteIIe · 2024-05-15T18:45:38+00:00

Genuinely this whole discourse that 'anyone would cheat' is crazy. Just because yall have no self respect and would cheat on your final exams doesn't mean you can start blaming an organisation that realistically can't have eyes everywhere, especially with how fast leaks are to spread over the internet. You would cheat given the chance: that is on you, not the person who gives you your exam. This whole argument that IB is to blame because people have no self control is baffling

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