Sixth Sense
Jinan Babiker and Natalia Ali
Mrs. Aimee Rosser
Deerfield Elementary
If you could sense someone watching you, does noise level increase or decrease accuracy?
Abstract
Write the abstract last, after all your results and analysis are finished
The abstract is a summary (250 words or less) of your project and must include:
Problem
How does the level of noise affect if we know someone is watching us?
Introduction (Background Research)
Generally, humans are sensitive to a feeling of being watched. This is likely due to evolution related to survival behaviors in the sense that when being stared at, one may feel intimidated or in some sort of danger. Given this, it is common to be especially sensitive when we think someone is watching us. Though this “sixth sense” may be strong, other senses may take away from it. For instance sound can cause focus to shift upon the noise, taking away focus from an intense consciousness as of someone watching you. Yet when you feel someone watching you, noise may signify a need to be more aware of your surroundings and cause you to try and be more sensitive to what surrounds you.
Hypothesis
One way to write a hypothesis:
"If _____[this is done] _____, then _____[this]_____ will happen." (Fill in the blanks with the appropriate information from your own project.)
Another way to write a hypothesis:
“We think noise level will decrease because it most likely will take away focus from a feeling of being watched more than it will influence a feeling to be more aware.
Materials
Procedure
Results
With Music | Without Music |
Simrah / Age 12 (female): When we looked at her, her hand raised all three times we looked and we stopped. (Very rare case because mostly people raise their hands but they do not lower when we stop.) | Simrah / Age 12 (female): Mostly accture, though with music is better. This time lowered hand too late. (Common case because the noise is not there.) |
Arya / Age 11 (female): When we looked closer at her the more she got it correct. She described her sixth scent as “a feeling” and something that rushed over her. (Different case, but more common because we had closer contact to her.) | Arya / Age 11 (female): Same effects, described the test as “a feeling” or something that rushed through her body making her want to raise her hand. (Different case, more common though this time we were farther from the subject.) |
Elan / Age 8 / (male): Observing his actions, he was rarely right. With the music it was definitely worse than without. Kept his hand up for too long. (Most likely common in younger subjects. May be because of the undeveloped senses in his brain.) | Elan / Age 8 / (male): Observing him once again though without music, we could tell the sense was enhancing, maybe due to him being able to shift focus away from sound and to his other senses. Though held it up too long even after both of us looked away. (Common case because of the freedom of sound.) |
Serena / Age 13 / (female): When observing I observed that she got most of them right though kept her hand up for too long. (Very common case that we saw between all the subjects (keeping hand up too long.)) | Serena / Age 13 / (female): |
Elyas / Age 11 / (male) | Elyas / Age 11 / (male) |
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Results (Cont.)
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Discussion
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Conclusion
Type a brief summary here of what you discovered based on the results of your testing. You need to indicate whether or not the data supports your hypothesis or proposed solution and the reason for your conclusion. (no more than 250 words)
Using all the data that we collected we can conclude that without music the boys over 8 years old perform better than the girls. I made this conclusion because of the triple amount of girls versus boys over 8. (The ratio would be 3:1). The reasoning for this would be that the boys were more focused, not having any distractions disturbing there performance. Though the girl didn’t have any, they most likely used their sound as a advantage, though this failed because their hearing wasn’t as stop as the boys. Perhaps hearing things that they thought were the testers. As a result of this, we can conclude that the boys under 8 years of age perform better than girls because of less distractions and possible hearing.
Next, using the data from the with music test, we can actually state that the girls performed better. Using the data we have received the scores for both boys dropped even lower, because of the music, which lead to distractions. They took interest into the songs which had them focus more on that than the test Though the boys score dropped lower, the girl’s score increased. In addition,the girls couldn’t rely on there hearing anymore, using there intuition or their sixth scent sense this was all they had. This proves that the girls intuition is stronger than the boys who could easily take in the distractions and rely more on their hearing. Another way the girls could have performed better was because the girls didn’t like the music, and most likely tuned it out focusing more on the test than the music. In conclusion, we can state that girls relied more on their intuition than hearing because of it being concealed while the boys performed worse, because of being distracted or not having a strong enough intuition .
Reflection/Application
Things you might want to reflect on:
References Cited
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Science Consultant, UCLA Science Project
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