Well, at the moment we do have some numbers for this assignment. However, we do not have our conclusions or any scatterplots of data. They will be coming soon, we promise.
HYPOTHESIS:
It will take less licks for guys to get to the Tootsie Roll Center of Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pops than it will for girls.
Here's the data we've collected so far.
Boys
Boy #1: 1356 licks and 1304 licks. Boy #2: 897 licks and 914 licks. Boy #3: 764 licks and 887 licks. Boy #4: 1891 licks and 1887 licks. Boy #5: 1233 licks and 1259 licks.
Click here if you would like to a graph of our boys' data.
Girls
Girl #1: 1523 licks and 1684 licks. Girl #2: 1828 licks and 1807 licks. Girl #3: 1625 licks and 2563 licks. Girl #4: 1513 licks. Girl #5: 1613 licks. To look at a graph of the girls' data, Click here!
Conclusion
Our data leads us to conclude that our hypothesis was correct. The mean for the male subjects' data was 1239. The mean for the female subjects' data was 1656. The difference between the two was 417 licks. It is a signifigant difference. Yes, boys do take less licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop.
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