Read the article. Meet with others in your group and discuss the following questions (or send messages to each other via email). One person in your group should submit a paper for the entire group.
1. The article discusses several experiments that were conducted to try
to understand why individuals differ in how comfortable they feel at
different temperatures. List all the variables that were studied.
NOTE: I'm asking you to write a list, not an essay. For example, a list
of variables
that might contribute to individual differences in eating behavior might
include:
2. Consider the experiment described in the paragraph beginning "Measurement of sweat's salt concentration". Diamond says that these experiments showed that Japanese resorb less salt than do the other groups. But since he hasn't presented all the details of the original articles, you may not be willing to accept this conclusion. Before accepting this conclusion, what questions would you want to ask about how the experiment was done? How might the answer affect the likelihood that the given conclusion is true? For example, after I briefly described Berthold's experiment, you might have asked a question like this: