DO BOYS HAVE

QUICKER REACTION
TIMES THAN GIRLS?
Univariate Data Analysis
 Problem
 Analyzing whether boys have faster/quicker
reaction times than girls.

 I will be answering this question by using

graphs and analyzing statistics to get the
answer.
 Plan
 I will be measuring the reaction times from
boys and girls and compare the averages
 I will be analyzing my data which I found on
Census at school nz.
 I will be using excel to perform my analysis
and record my data.
 I will use PowerPoint to collect my data.
 Data
GENDER REACTION GENDER REACTION
TIME (split seconds) TIME (split seconds)
Boy 0 Girl 0.311
Boy 0.278 Girl 0.359
Boy 0.313 Girl 0.363
Boy 0.344 Girl 0.375
Boy 0.359 Girl 0.422
Boy 0.359 Girl 0.422
Boy 0.36 Girl 0.432
Boy 0.39 Girl 0.454
Boy 0.407 Girl 0.459
Boy 0.421 Girl 0.469
Boy 0.422 Girl 0.5
Boy 0.423 Girl 0.563
Boy 0.546 Girl 1.062
Boy 0.55 Girl 1.781
Boy 0.984 Girl 5.284
 Data
 I decided not to clean my data as there was
only 1 outlier and I didn’t think it was
necessary for this particular problem. Also I
wanted it to be as accurate as possible without
removing any data.
 Analysis
Boys Centre: Girls Centre:
Mean: 0.4104 Mean: 0.883733

Median: 0.39 Median: 0.454

Boys Spread: Girls Spread:

Range: 0.706 Range: 4.784

IQR: 0.39 IQR: 0.375
 Conclusion
 In conclusion with these results it has shown us
clearly that boys have a faster reaction time than girls.
You can see this because none of the boys reaction
times went over 1 second whereas with the girls their
were three over 1 second. One of them being an
outlier at 5.284 seconds. This has also been backed up
with the averages, for the boys the mean was 0.4104
but with the girls it was 0.883733. a significant
difference. However with the IQR there was just a
little difference of 0.015 between them.
 New ideas for next time would be to include more
people in the investigation instead of just 30.
 Hypothesis
 The hypothesis was proved correct as you can
see in the conclusion that boys do have faster
reaction times than girls. So far this seems like
a success but further investigation and
surveying more people would possibly lead to
a more conclusive and accurate result.
 IS THERE A
RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN ARM SPAN
AND NECK SPAN?
Bivariate data analysis
 Problem
 Analyzing whether there is a relationship
between the width of a persons arm and the
width of a persons neck.

 I will be answering this question by using a

scatter plot and analyzing my data.
 Plan
 I will be analyzing the width of peoples arms
and necks and comparing them together.

 The data I will be using is off census at school

nz.
 I will be using excel to record my data and
PowerPoint to collect and display my data.
Arm span (cm) Neck span (cm)
13.9 26
15.5
16
15.1
Data 29
32
31
13 26
18.4 36
16.9 34
16.2 30
15.2 32
15.9 29
15.4 29
15 32
16.2 31
15.8 32
15.8 37
16.3 34
10.4 27
15 30
16.4 33
15.2 14
5.6 12
15.4 30
6.1 32
15.6 30
8 36
15.6 32
15.2 34
16.7 28
17.9 40
16.3 14
 Analysis
neck span
45
40
35
30 f(x) = 0.66 x + 20.1 neck span
25 R² = 0.1 Linear (neck span)
20
15
10
5
0
4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20

-Linear
-Positive
-Moderate relationship
 Conclusion
 In conclusion to this investigation it has shown that
their is a moderate relationship between arm span
and neck span. Further more the person who has
the biggest arm span (18.4cm) also has one of the
biggest neck spans (36cm) this provides us with the
info that their body weight has been spread around
fairly equally. With this relationship a success, you
would be able to look at one part of the body such
as arm span and if it was fairly big you would be
able to determine that the neck span will be big as
well. But this is not guaranteed.
 Hypothesis
 This proves that their is a relationship between
arm span and neck span resulting in a success.