Lab 1 - Worksheet B - Length
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Lab 1 – Worksheet B – Hand length vs. Height Hypothesis
This Word document has been designed to allow you to add or remove space to accommodate your responses. Answers to questions should be a minimum of two complete sentences in length. Your responses must be in your own words. Step 1 – Observations:
1.
Observe people while going about your daily life, pay particular attention to height and hand length. Then, describe your observations about the relationship between people's hand and foot length. Step 2 – Facts: 2.
List the information and data you need to carry out an experiment about the relationship between hand length and height. Describe how you will take measurements.
Measurement tools (measuring tape)
Writing utensil
Notebook or something to keep track of measurements
Step 3 – Establishing a Hypothesis: 3.
Based on your observations, write a hypothesis that relates a person's height to his or her hand size.
Based on my observations, a person's hand size has a correlation to their height.
If their hand is bigger they are usually taller Step 4 – Gathering Data
Gather data by asking 10 or more random people (research participants) for their height
and ask to measure the length of their hand, from the middle finger to the wrist.
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Figure. Measurement from the middle finger to the wrist.
Data table for recording height and hand length in English and metric units. Participant
Number
Height (in)
Hand length
(in)
Height (m)
Hand length
(mm)
1
5
’ 8”
7.5
1.72
190.5
2
5’
6.5
1.52
165.1
3
6’ 2”
8.2
1.88
208.28
4
5’ 3”
6.6
1.6
167.64
5
5’ 7”
7.3
1.7
185.42
6
5’ 9”
7.5
1.75
190.5
7
6’ 1”
8
1.85
203.2
8
5’ 5”
7.2
1.65
182.88
9
4’ 11”
6
1.5
152.4
10
6’ 4”
8.5
1.93
215.9
Step 5 – Evaluating the Hypothesis Based Upon the Data
4.
Based on the results of your graph, does the data support your hypothesis? Explain. Based on the results on the graph my hypothesis was correct. There was a positive correlation with hand lengths and heights. That means that the longer the hand length of a person was the taller they would be in height Page 2
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5.
Based on your results, what would modify what you would change if you did the experiment again? Revise your hypothesis. If I were to do the experiment again I would add more people to it just so that it makes the experiment stronger.
6.
Not every experiment goes according to plan, what were some problems or unusual observations made during the experiment? A problem that occurred with my experiment was that some people were somewhat uncomfortable.
7.
Describe how this experiment could be further expanded, i.e. what else could be done to improve the experiment? This experiment could be further expanded if we had went to shorter people or went into
different types of lengths such as hand spans 8.
How do you think the results of the experiment would be different if you took measurements for a hundred people? What about 1,000,000 people? The experiment would most likely yield the same results but would just take longer to complete. The ratio might be different then that of the 10 people I did it for. Location might also play a factor. Page 3
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