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Our experiment was aided by Professor Dr. Adler, course organizer Lisa Stillman, teaching assistant Meredith Hansen, and teaching intern Sabrina Hardy. With their help, we were able to efficiently obtain a sufficient amount of data in order to support our conclusions. Funding for the experiment was provided by Purdue University.

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