Survival of silkworms after arsenic poisoning
Use this simulation to demonstrate that repetition of the data collection would usually result in different values. The point again is that a single sample is not as important as the 'process' behind the data — i.e. we want to generalise from the sample to something more fundamental about survival of silkwork larvae in general.
This is a simulation but the context is the following experiment.
Silkworm larvae must be killed after spinning their cocoons since the silk is damaged when they later emerge. In an experiment to help understand the toxicity of sodium arsenate to silkworm larvae, survival times of 10 fourth-instar silkworm larvae were recorded after being given 0.1 mg of sodium arsenate per gram of body weight.