High School Movie Analysis

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Analysis The experiment tests how different movie genres have a different affect on people’s heart rate. After watching the sing-along movie, High School Musical 2, most of the people’s heart rate decreased. The movie caused 11 out of the 17 people tested to decrease. It had an average and mean of 70.4 bpm before and 67.6 bpm after. The sing-along movie had the smallest standard deviation. There was a standard deviation of 7.98 before and 9.44 after. Most of the people being tested had a heart rate similar to the mean and each other. After watching the action movie, James Bond: Skyfall, the heart rates went up and down. Half of the people’s heart rates went up and half of the people’s heart rates went down. It caused 8 out of the 17 …show more content…
However, some changes in heart rate would be more extreme than others. In experiments prior to this one, it was concluded that singing can cause heart rates to respond in a similar way. After watching the sing-along movie for our experiment, the heart rates were similar to each other than they were before watching the movie, because the standard deviation was lower than the other movies. Experiments prior to this experiment declared that someone would see a change in heart rate after watching an action or adventure movie. They believe action movies resemble stressful movies, so the stress it causes will increase the heart rate of the person watching it. In this experiment, only half of the people being tested had an increase in heart rate. This experiment demonstrates how action movies will cause a change in heart rate. However, it could be by increasing or decreasing the heart rate of the people watching the movie. In recent studies, horror movies mostly elevate the heart rate of the people watching it. The horror movie in this experiment caused almost everyone’s heart rate to increase. There have been extreme cases where horror movies have caused the death or a serious health condition to the person watching it. The horror movie in this experiment caused such a large increase in heart rate that these kind of rare cases may be true when someone already has a health condition. The results from this experiment resemble the results to experiments in the

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