Results+and+Conclusion

Results

a) A verbal description of your results b) Tables and/or Graphs to demonstrate your results (the numbers from your experiment)

Outliers - points that are very different from the bulk of the results May throw these out, but must still mention them.

The results discuss only the numbers and the analysis of the numbers.

EX: Gary is not the smartest snail in Bikini Bottom and believes he can improve his brain power by eating Super Snail Snacks. In order to test this hypothesis, he recruits SpongeBob and several snail friends to help him with the experiment. The snails ate one snack with each meal every day for three weeks. SpongeBob created a test and gave it to the snails before they started eating the snacks as well as after three weeks.

Snail Before After Gary 64% 80% Larry 78% 78% Barry 82% 84% Terry 72% 70% Table 1 - Scores on the test before eating Super Snail Snacks and after eating Super Snail Snacks.

Write a verbal description of these results (not your opinion of what happened, that's for the conclusion) Share with a partner Share with class

Gary is an outlier - he improved 16% WOAH! Larry had no change Terry went 2% down, Barry went 2% up

EX: Gary improved by 16% the most of any snail in this experiment. Terry and Barry both had a two percent change, one up and one down. Larry the snail had no change between the two tests. (Table 1)

Conclusion: Your opinion of what happened in the experiment. Hypothesis supported or rejected Why you interpret the data this way Sources of Error How you would change the experiment or what experiment you would do next to further this research

EX - Gary's hypothesis was rejected the results did not provide conclusive evidence that Super Snail Snacks improve brain power. Gary was the only snail to experience significant improvement. He improved by 16% while the only other snail to improve improved by only 2%. A 2% improvement could be luck on the test because it is only a one or two question improvement if the test is between 50-100 questions. One snail went down 2% indicating that it is possible to go down, or that this was also insignificant data.

This experiment needs to be repeated using more trials, having more snails eat the snacks and take the test. The test also needs to be tested to see the average difference between the first testing and the second testing on people who have done nothing different during the three weeks. After doing these things the experiment will provide conclusive results.