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question about balancing
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sano
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- Joined: Mon Nov 29, 2010 3:46 pm
- Occupation: student: 9th grade
- Project Question: over a certain amount of times of trying to balance on a banana chair is it easier and is it easier with your eyes open or closed
- Project Due Date: December 13th
- Project Status: I am conducting my research
question about balancing
I want to know if you balanced on a banana chair ten times in a row and get longer times every time you try what happens to your mind or body that makes you stay on the banana chair longer
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deleted-71603
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Re: question about balancing
Sounds like an interesting project, Sano! Do you have a specific question or area of your project that you need help with?
Deana
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sano
- Posts: 2
- Joined: Mon Nov 29, 2010 3:46 pm
- Occupation: student: 9th grade
- Project Question: over a certain amount of times of trying to balance on a banana chair is it easier and is it easier with your eyes open or closed
- Project Due Date: December 13th
- Project Status: I am conducting my research
Re: question about balancing
well during my project right now i am doing research and i did some tests and i did balance on the banana chair longer but i am not saying this is a fact but i am wondering why did i stay on the banana chair longer
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deleted-71603
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Re: question about balancing
Ok. Please answer some questions for me:
1. What did you research and what did you find?
2. What is your hypothesis?
3. Did you have any variables in your experiment? Meaning, are you comparing boys / girls, beginning of day / end of day, etc? Did you conduct the experiment yourself, or did you measure other people, as well?
4. What is the ultimate question you are trying to answer? Is it: why do humans balance longer the more times they try? If so, then you are trying to characterize overall human behavior and what causes a human to stay on the chair longer the more times they try. If so, then several variables could affect the outcome, and you may want to alter your test to try one of these variables. For example, the difference between boys and girls, or the difference before and after a meal, the difference between trying in the morning or in the afternoon. Think about this when you are doing your research. What is it about the human body that MIGHT cause a difference between boys and girls (or one of the other combinations I gave)?
5. Also, whether you include variables or not, it would be wise to measure results on more people than yourself. A good scientific experiment tries to produce results that reflect what would happen if you could measure the response from every human on the planet. Obviously, you can't measure everyone, so you want to create your sample space so that it represents the human population as close as possible. The more people you include in your experiment, the more your data set will hopefully reflect the results if you were to measure everyone in the world.
I hope this helps. Respond back with answers to my questions above so we can better understand what you have accomplished so far and what, exactly, you are trying to accomplish. We can go further from there.
Good luck!
1. What did you research and what did you find?
2. What is your hypothesis?
3. Did you have any variables in your experiment? Meaning, are you comparing boys / girls, beginning of day / end of day, etc? Did you conduct the experiment yourself, or did you measure other people, as well?
4. What is the ultimate question you are trying to answer? Is it: why do humans balance longer the more times they try? If so, then you are trying to characterize overall human behavior and what causes a human to stay on the chair longer the more times they try. If so, then several variables could affect the outcome, and you may want to alter your test to try one of these variables. For example, the difference between boys and girls, or the difference before and after a meal, the difference between trying in the morning or in the afternoon. Think about this when you are doing your research. What is it about the human body that MIGHT cause a difference between boys and girls (or one of the other combinations I gave)?
5. Also, whether you include variables or not, it would be wise to measure results on more people than yourself. A good scientific experiment tries to produce results that reflect what would happen if you could measure the response from every human on the planet. Obviously, you can't measure everyone, so you want to create your sample space so that it represents the human population as close as possible. The more people you include in your experiment, the more your data set will hopefully reflect the results if you were to measure everyone in the world.
I hope this helps. Respond back with answers to my questions above so we can better understand what you have accomplished so far and what, exactly, you are trying to accomplish. We can go further from there.
Good luck!
Deana