Stop and Think: Pg.

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1. It is possible to begin finding the initial carrier by looking at whose cups are not infected. How can you
eliminate others?
By looking at the cups that weren’t infected and who the which infected people they partied with, they can
eliminate those who are infected to zero it down to test subject 0.

2. Who do you think was the initial carrier? Why? What made the person easier to find this time?
Katerina was the initial carrier of the disease. By being able to record the names of each person we “partied” with,
we were accurately able to see if any unaffected carriers had ever partied with certain infected people. This eliminated
the infected people one by one. The last infected person that had none of the uninfected people interact with her was test
subject 0, Kat.

3. Which cup(s) can you rule out as being the one that first had the disease? How do you know?
We ruled out the infected cups that had interacted with more than two people that were unaffected. This shows
that they had interacted with infected people before they were infected, meaning that those infected people couldn’t have
been patient 0.

4. Now that you have finished the activity, how would you explain how a disease spreads through a community?
The disease spreads through one person and spreads out through others. When there is an infectious disease, it can
spread easily through simple interactions, simple as accidentally drinking someone else’s beverage at a party. The person
becomes infected and those who interact with the infected people also becomes infected. This process repeats itself and
the amount of infected people would theoretically continue to grow exponentially. That’s where vaccines and remedies
come into play for ending this continuous chain of disease, which will later be learned in the learning set.

5. This investigation was a simulation. How do you think this

investigation is like spreading a real disease? How do you
think it is different from what happens in real life?
The simulation represented that diseases can be passed
through out a civilization. However, the people who were
infected had to be the ones that interacted with test subject 0,
because the solution would be too dilated for second hand
infected people to pass on the infection. In real life, a person
who has a communicable disease and passed it on to another
person, that person would also be able to spread the disease. The
simulation did not accurately represent this. If the simulation
accurately represented a disease spreading, then the amount of people being infected would be increasing at an
exponential rate, as shown on the theoretical graph on the right.