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Do minor wounds (cuts, abrasions) heal faster with or without a bandage?

For you to make an experiment to see if this hypothesis is correct you need the findings accurate. So you need to take one person to do the experiment. You would make a small wound on a part of their body. Then put a bandage on it. Record how many days it takes to heal. Once they are healed make another wound. Make sure it is the same length, type, and as deep as the first one. Also make sure it is in the same part of the body.
 * INCLUDE ALL OF THE FOLLOWING WITH YOUR EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: **
 * [remember it must be a controlled experiment] **
 * 1. A hypothesis: ** Minor cuts or wounds will heal faster with a bandage than without a bandage
 * 2. Explain how to set up the experiment **
 * ** brainstorm a list of all the variables that must be kept constant during the experiment: ** Location of the wound, type of wound, brand of bandage, type of bandage, medicines used to help heal, blood type, age of person, male or female, how deep the wound is, size of wound, amount of oxygen exposed to the wound, hair around the cut, health of person, type of tool making the wound, how clean the wound is, does the person have a disease, how quickly the person heals?
 * ** include identification of the independent variable: ** Whether the wound has a bandage or not
 * ** the dependent variable: ** How much the wound has healed
 * ** identify the control group: ** The group without a bandage
 * ** identify the experimental group: ** The group with a bandage
 * 3. Provide enough details for someone else to set up your experiment: **

It is important for the person to be the same one in both experiments, because some people heal better than others. It is because some people have thinner blood. It is harder for thin blood to clot than thicker blood. It is important for the wound to be in the same spot too. This is important, because some parts of the body don't heal as quick. For example, head wounds bleed worse than on any where else on the body. Also it takes longer for head wounds to heal.

You would need to repeat this experiment multiple times. You should use different people each time. Also you would need to keep the wounds consistent. If you cut one persons hand five centimeters from the tip of the pinky finger, you would need to do the same for every person. To make sure the experiment is accurate, make more wounds on different places on the body.