Science+Experiment+1

Topic: Who has a faster reaction time a male or female?

Question: Do females or males have a faster reaction time?

Background Information: Researchers say that a reaction time is the ability to respond quickly to a stimulus. Having a fast or slow reaction time can some times mean life or death. thats why it is important to have an fast reaction time, like if a car was coming at you you would need to get out of the way as fast as you can, this is were a fast reaction time is needed and in many other cases. You can improve your time by practicing it but you can never get it down to 0.0 seconds. Thinks that help you react is your eyes,kinesthetic sense and your ears. Having good reaction time in baseball is vary inportan picher can sometimes through up to 95 miles per hour, this is were the reaction time is inportan. For a batter to hit the ball the brain has to be able to react quickly. The brain plays a big part in having a good reaction time. It has to take the image and proses it by then it had all ready traveled over 15 feet, then the batter has to decied two swing or not by now it traveled over 15 feet again, then the batter has to start to swing when then ball is 25 feet out. Hers a good qeution is a pro baseball picher pich faster then a blink of an eye? If you were playing baseball with the pros they can through up to 95 miles per hour and it takes 0.395 seconds to reach home plate. And it takes 0.40 seconds to blink one time. Which means that a pro baseball picher can through faster then a blink of an eye.

A cool video on reaction time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrZVRuK77EE

the web sites for the backround info. http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/zap.html http://www.topendsports.com/testing/reactime.htm

Hypothesis: I think that when the males take the test then they will be faster then the females.

Procedure:
 * Find a good web site to test on.
 * Get three boys and three girls for the test.
 * Have the three boys and three girls take the reaction time time test.
 * Wright down the avrge for both girls and boys.
 * take the data and wright it down on the wiki for the science experiment

Materials: 1 Computer 1 web sites to test on 1 Sheet of paper to wright the data down 1 pencil to wright with. 3 Girls 3 Boys

Experiment: Test 3 girls and 3 boys on a reaction time tests and see if males or females are faster at the test.

Data/Results:

Boy 1: 0.264 Boy 2: 0.213 = 0.227 Boy 3: 0.202

Girl 1: 0.207 Girl 2: 0.243 = 0.226 Girl 3: 0.237

Conclusion: My hypothesis was that i think that when the males take the test then theywill be faster then the females. My hypothesis was wrong the males were not faster the the females. If you look at the avreges above the females have a lower avrege then the males. I would change the web site because i felt like i could have found a better one.