Conclusion The hypothesis for how 80’s music would make it harder for the participants to focus was accepted. The data used from the experiment that supports the hypothesis was the different genres of music that each participant listened to, one of the genres of music was 80’s music and the participants that listened to 80’s music had a harder time focusing on the worksheet and got more time for the trials with music than without music. I think the results came out the way they did is because when your doing a math worksheet especially basic multiplication you have to be able to think hard. Trying to think hard while listening to music isn’t easy. Therefore all the results show that you shouldn’t listen to music while doing a basic multiplication.
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One thing that went well was that all the participants hot 100% accuracy. Another thing that went well was that everyone completed the worksheet under 150 seconds. One thing that went wrong was the time of day I had the participants do the test. Another thing that went wrong was all the distractions, not just when listening to music but also when your not listening to music. Some of the problems were the participants siblings asking them questions or talking when the participant was trying to do the worksheet. I was supposed to stop and start the timer for the participant, but sometimes I got distracted. If the participants sibling was talking to me I would talk back then when the participant stopped the timer would be a few seconds off. During the experiments I thought of a lot of new things I could test. One idea was that I could test one genre of music with one specific song and see the accuracy of the worksheet when the participant finished. Another idea was that I could do the exact same test but on adults and not kids. The last idea I had was that I could compare the times between Adults and teenagers. The results came out exactly how I had predicted them two, I figured that listening to music would be a distraction the time for completing the worksheet would be longer with music than without. In the future I would want to do this test again but change some variables and
One thing that went well was that all the participants hot 100% accuracy. Another thing that went well was that everyone completed the worksheet under 150 seconds. One thing that went wrong was the time of day I had the participants do the test. Another thing that went wrong was all the distractions, not just when listening to music but also when your not listening to music. Some of the problems were the participants siblings asking them questions or talking when the participant was trying to do the worksheet. I was supposed to stop and start the timer for the participant, but sometimes I got distracted. If the participants sibling was talking to me I would talk back then when the participant stopped the timer would be a few seconds off. During the experiments I thought of a lot of new things I could test. One idea was that I could test one genre of music with one specific song and see the accuracy of the worksheet when the participant finished. Another idea was that I could do the exact same test but on adults and not kids. The last idea I had was that I could compare the times between Adults and teenagers. The results came out exactly how I had predicted them two, I figured that listening to music would be a distraction the time for completing the worksheet would be longer with music than without. In the future I would want to do this test again but change some variables and