Lab 7: Human Variation

Warm Up: Does everyone have the same ability to see or to hear? How about to feel or to touch? How can we find out the answer to these questions?

Vocabulary:
1. Control - the object that does not get changed in an experiment
2. Hypothesis - a scientific prediction based off of previous knowledge of a subject
3. Reproducible - an item that can be created again the way the item was originally
4. Variable - the one thing that is changing in an experiment

Hypothesis: (What is the smallest distance?)

Touch Test Data sheet (1 page empty to glue in data sheet)

Analysis Questions:
1.a. According to your data, what can you conclude about your sensitivity to 2 point touches? How does this conclusion compare with your hypothesis?

1.b. Compare your results with those of your partner. How similar or different are your results?

1.c. Compare your results with those of another pair of students. How similar or different are your results?

4.a. A good experiment is reproducible. What parts of this experiment are reproducible?

4.b. How could this experiment be improved?