Final+Science+Experiment


 * Topic-** Reading different words in different colors.


 * Questions-** Which gender reads a word in a different color test more quickly and has more correct answers?

Information:
 * Background Information-** Basically in my experiment I am testing the way your brain sees/translates colors and words between male and female genders. The question that i'm asking here is "is there a gender difference in response to color?"

[] Below is an example of The Color-Text Brain Teaser. Which is what I am going to be giving to my testing participants. You do it by saying the color of each wording. WATCH OUT!! Do not say the color named by the word. Example: if you see Blue you would say “red” because the color of the word blue is red. Give it a try, but be warned: it's harder then it looks!



[].html "Is there a gender difference in response to color? Although findings are ambiguous, many investigations have indicated that there are differences between gender in preferences for colors. Early investigations done by by Guilford (1934) on the harmony of color combinations found that a person is likely to see balance in colors that are closely related or the opposite. Guilford also found some evidence that more pleasing results were obtained from either very small or very large differences in hue rather than medium differences, with this tendency more frequent in women than men."

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An experiment was carried out at a school by the name of SBHS. The experiment was tested on forty students at the school. There were 10 underclassmen males, 10 underclassmen females, 10 upper classmen males, and 10 upper classmen females. They performed just about the same experiment as I am for my experiment. The only difference in our experiments is I am experimenting with fewer subjects, and of coarse I am testing eighth grade students and not college students. The results of the experiments were that the males completed the test in a smaller amount of time, but the females answered more of the questions correctly. I wonder how the results of my testing will be.

Based on the information that I gathered from the sites listed above and my own personal knowledge from my observations of classmates I think that the males will be quicker in finishing the test, but the females will have more correct answers. In class I can obviously observe that the male gender is better at mulit tasking then females. For instance: When more males in my class can rub their heads and pat their tummies at the same time and at a faster rate then the females.
 * Hypothesis:**

Total amount of the girls' incorrect answers:51 Total amount of boys' incorrect answers:111 Total amount of time (in seconds) for girls:1,044 Total amount of time (in seconds) for boys:1,577
 * Data:**
 * Girls results in seconds || Boys results in seconds ||
 * E. 83 seconds || J. 66 seconds ||
 * J. 124 seconds || Mr. S. 63 seconds ||
 * N. 118 seconds || A. 71 seconds ||
 * A. 52 seconds || M. 90 seconds ||
 * M. 61 seconds || D. 79 seconds ||
 * B. 80 seconds || N. 87 seconds ||
 * A. 59 seconds || M. 98 seconds ||
 * J. 65 seconds || B. 60 seconds ||
 * M. 94 seconds || J. 77 seconds ||
 * J. 81 seconds || W. 102 seconds ||
 * D. 71 seconds || T. 88 seconds ||
 * P. 64 seconds || H. 96 seconds ||
 * A . 92 seconds || D. 83 seconds ||
 * || T. 87 seconds ||
 * || R. 103 seconds ||
 * || S. 82 seconds ||
 * || S. 155 seconds ||
 * || J. 90 seconds ||
 * Conclusion:**