Males or Females?
WHO IS BETTER ESTIMATING THE UNKNOWN MALES OR FEMALES?
Question
Purpose The purpose of this project is to determine, who is better at estimating the unknown, males or females?
Hypothesis We hypothesize that females are better
estimators than males! We believe this because boys always play around and don’t pay attention. They always say they are smarter than girls. They’re not aware of paying attention to things around them!
PROCEDURE
Materials A medium sized glass jar Snap cubes Paper clips Crayons Pencils Marbles
VARIABLESMANIPULATED VARIABLES
MALES OR FEMALES
RESPONDING VARIABLESESTIMATES
CONTENT VARIABLESSIZE OF JAR
HOW MANY OBJECTS IN JAR FOR EACH TRIAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE ASKED TO ESTIMATE
Directions 1. Get medium size clear glass jar. 2. Count and record of cubes. Keep count
hidden from test estimators. 3. Place cubes in clear jar. 4. Have 10 girls and 10 boys estimate the
number of cubes. Record estimates. 5. Repeat steps 1-4 with paper clips. 6. Repeat steps 1-4 with crayons. 7. Repeat steps 1-4 with pencils. 8. Repeat steps 1-4 with marbles.
AVERAGE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ACTUAL AND ESTIMATESAVERAGE ESTIMATES
TRAIL 1
TRAIL 2
TRIAL 3
TRIAL 4
TRIAL 5 AVERAGE
MALES
63.3 13.6 20.5 1.8 56.7 32.18
FEMALES
55.4 51.3 1.7 .70 47.1 31.24
CONCLUSION Our hypothesize was correct. Females are
better estimators than males. The average difference between the actual and the estimate for males average was 32.18 and for females 31.24. If we wanted to try this investigation again, we would change the age of the estimators. It would be interesting if we got the same results.