Man vs. Machine: A Junior-Level Laboratory Exercise Comparing Human and Instrumental Detection Limits

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Limit of Detection 100%
• Flame Ionization 65%
• Exercise 61%
• Gas Chromatography 46%
• Food Analysis 40%
• Students 37%
• Odorants 28%
• 1-hexanol 25%
• Data Analysis 20%
• Food Quality 18%
• Problem-Based Learning 17%
• Signal-To-Noise Ratio 15%
• Sulfhydryl Compounds 14%
• Nose 10%
• Datasets 10%
• Linear Models 10%

Agriculture & Biology

• exercise 88%
• students 54%
• flame ionization 53%
• food analysis 36%
• gas chromatography 35%
• odor compounds 29%
• methodology 25%
• data analysis 25%
• signal-to-noise ratio 18%
• hexanols 18%
• reference standards 16%
• instrumentation 15%
• detectors 13%
• food quality 13%
• thiols 13%
• standard deviation 13%
• learning 12%
• testing 5%

Social Sciences

• food 27%
• data analysis 20%
• student 13%
• regression 8%