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🔬 Beekeeping Research Methodology & Experimental Design Lab

An interactive apiary field-trial simulator: randomise or cluster hive assignment, dial replication and effect size, and watch a live results chart show how design choices bias or clarify honey-yield findings.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour3DAdvanced60 FPS

A 3D apiary field trial where you assign hives to control and treatment groups, then watch a live results chart reveal how randomisation, replication and confounding variables shape what a study can honestly conclude.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Hives sit on a field with a hidden forage-quality gradient. Clustering treatment hives on the richer side inflates the observed effect; randomised assignment cancels that bias out on average, letting replication and noise decide whether the effect is detectable.

🎮 How to Use

Switch between Randomised and Clustered assignment, then adjust replicates, the true treatment effect, the field's confound strength and colony-to-colony noise. Run new trials to see the bar chart, bias and t-statistic shift.

💡 Did You Know?

Randomisation doesn't eliminate confounding in any single trial — it only guarantees that, averaged over many trials, confounds don't systematically favour one group, which is why pre-registered, replicated designs matter so much in field research.

⚙ Under the hood

beeshoneyhiveapiaryresearchexperimentThree.js

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install