gummi bear blog

 

The goal of the experiment is to see if there is a difference between launching a gummi bear while it sits on the rear end or if it is launched from its back. There are two levels which are lying on its back and sitting on his butt. The two factors we are adding is the person who launches the gummi bear and the sitting position of the gummi bear. The four different treatments we have in our experiment are RJ butt, RJ back, Andrew butt, and Andrew back. Our randomization was based on rolling a dice to see who launched first then we went in a counter clockwise order to see who launched next. The way we collected our data was by making a data table and recording the measurements of the launches. The way we measured the distance was by counting the tiles and we count up until the tile the gummi bear landed in.

The mean of RJ butt is 5.1 tiles, the median was 5, and the range was 12.

The mean of RJ back is 6.7 tiles, the median was 6, and the range was 11.

The mean of Andrew butt is 4.53 tiles, the median was 5, and the range was 5.

The mean of Andrew back is 5.2 tiles, the median was 5, and the range was 6.

The inferential statistics we collected was that Andrew on his butt was the most consistent data we collected. The most inconsistent data we collected was RJ on his back.  Therefore if we are doing this experiment to see if there’s a difference between launching it on its butt or on its back we can conclude that when you put him on his back he shoots farther.