CONCLUSION

On November the fourteenth (2012) at precisely eight twenty A.M., Mr. McKinneys class started an extremely interesting lab on the human Reaction Time. I, being there at the time, started this project with Dr. Nicholas Heywood, with a PhD in reaction time science. (not really). During this interesting lab, I learned that the average human reaction time is zero and fteen hundredths to zero and thirty hundredths of a second, which means my reaction time is above average! Here is my Hypothesis: If I do both of these reaction time tests, then my time will be faster on test 1, because it takes less time to grab the ruler then it does to stop the stopwatch. I know this because the stopwatch test involves keeping ones hand on the table and you are only allowed to move it when the stopwatch hits ten seconds. The two tests we decided on are: the infamous ruler drop, and a stopwatch test that I thought of myself (It didnt really work that well). We chose the ruler drop because it was widely recommended across the internet and Mr. McKinney recommended it also. The other test sounded like a good idea, so we did it. Here are our variables: Independent: On Test 1, you dont know when the ruler will drop, but on Test 2, you know when the timer will reach 10 seconds. Dependent: The variable we are investigating is Reaction Time. Controlled: 1. we are still testing the Reaction Time. 2. the test both get similar results. 3. the both require a partner. These helped us understand the experiments more, so we could do them better. We also could have made several errors along the way, but luckily, we avoided them. Some of the possible errors were: dropping the ruler frequently, recording inaccurate information, screwing up the stopwatch, and more that probably will never happen (e.g. the world exploding). (NO ROOM FOR CHART, NEXT PAGE)

Jed Baxter

Monday, November 26, 2012 8:33:16 AM Hong Kong SAR China Time

 This graph shows that my reaction time is around zero and two tenths of a second, exactly what I thought it would be! I learned that my reaction time usually only varied about two tenths of a second on each trial. Interesting! If I do both of these reaction time tests, then my time will be faster on test one, because it takes less time to grab the ruler then it does to stop the stopwatch. I know this because the stopwatch test involves keeping ones hand on the table and you are only allowed to move it when the stopwatch hits ten seconds. I think this hypothesis was correct, because it said that my time would be faster on test one. It was. As you can see, my ruler test scores were faster than my stopwatch

Jed Baxter

Monday, November 26, 2012 8:33:16 AM Hong Kong SAR China Time

test scores. (my stopwatch average was zero and three hundred and twenty-ve thousandths, where as my ruler test average was zero and one thousand three hundred seventy-ve ten thousandths.) I learned that the human reaction time was essential to earlier preyed-on humans, but nowadays, it is not used very often, except in certain awesome sports such as Baseball, Soccer, and Football. I really enjoyed the experiments, and I found them very fun and interesting. I think I need to work on my research more, because I didnt do as much as I wouldve liked. I really enjoyed this Lab and I look forward to learning mire about the Scientic Method.

Monica Francis Thursday, 8:56 AM

Jed Baxter

Monday, November 26, 2012 8:33:16 AM Hong Kong SAR China Time