Science+experiment1

=Scientific Method Template =
 * Topic:** Gender reaction times


 * Question:** Is reaction time affected by gender?

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 * Background Information:** [|The Worlds Hardest Game] can show how good your reactions are. Kids that are in sports more have faster reaction time then kids that dont do anything.Past research has shown that video game playing experience or playing a video game immediately before being tested can improve both reaction times and anticipation. The purpose of this study was to combine the two conditions of current and past video game playing in order to see which has the largest impact on anticipation, as measured by changes in reaction times over consecutive trials. Thirty-seven participants were randomly placed in one of four conditions depending on the amount of hours they played video games and whether they played “Frogger for 15 minutes before being tested. A significant interaction effect was found in which participant who did not play video games regularly had large improvements in reaction times after playing “Frogger”.

 A person's reaction time is a measure of how quickly they can respond to a given stimulus. How long it takes to react to a rebound could mean the difference between a win and a loss. How long it takes to react to a stopped vehicle can mean the difference between a safe stop and a collision. It is important to know your limitations before it becomes a life and death situation http://www.science-house.org/student/bw/sports/reaction.html


 * Hypothesis:** I think that it will be the guys that have faster reaction time then girls because guys do more things then girls do that need fast reaction skills, but girls might because i kinda of been watching some people and i been noticing alot of girls are having faster reactions then some guys.


 * Procedure:** I am going to get some guys and some girls and do some reaction tests on them or ill just observe and see reactions with people. Another one will be taking a ruler put it above there to thumbs and drop it and see if they can catch it and i see what is the measurement and see how close they caught it towards the bottom.Also im going to do a few games.


 * Materials:** Pencil, Paper, and some people for the experiment


 * Experiment:**[|Reaction test]


 * Data/Results:** I took the reaction test shown above and asked some people to do it and i wrote down the information and analized it after i also did a ruler test to see where they caught it at. The link below is the reaction test results.


 * Conclusion:** My conclusion is that i thought that guys will have fatster reaction time then girls because guys do more sports and stuff that uses there reflexes. My hypothesis was not exactly correct but it was some what close it turned out that girls have a very little slower reaction time then guys do i also looked around on some websites and saw that some said that girls are a little bit slower and that is what it turned out to be. The data was very close most of the guys got about 37 average and the girls got about 32 average and that was very close. Some of the mistakes i made were i didnt do all of my expirements i kept on getting mixed up with all of the tests and it kind of got comfusing but it all worked out in the end. I dont think i would because i don't know anything else to do.