The Pianist And Non Pianist Lab Report

Does changing if a person plays piano or not affect how fast a person can type? If playing the piano affects how fast a person types then pianists will type faster than non-pianists. The procedures for the experiment were; Get participants who are pianists and non-pianists. Prepare a computer for participants to take the typing test. On the computer bring up http://www.freetypinggame.net/. Click on the tab that says test, and choose story number 32 (each participant will type the same story). Have each participant type the story twice for one minute each time. Copy down the number of words per minute each participant types. Find the mean words per minute of pianists and non-pianists. The Independent variable in the experiment was if the person could play piano or not. The Dependent variable was the speed of typing. The control group was non-pianists. The Experimental group was pianists. All the constant variables were each person typed on the same computer, everyone took the same test, and each person had the same amount of time to type. …show more content…
Each participant took the typing test twice. Pianist #1 typed an average of 20 word per minute (wpm). Pianist #2 typed an average of 34 wpm. Pianist #3 typed an average of 46.5 wpm. Pianist #4 typed an average of 32.5 wpm. Pianist #5 typed an average of 42 wpm. Non-pianist #1 typed an average of 28.5 wpm. Non-pianist #2 typed an average of 46.5 wpm. Non-pianist #3 typed an average of 39.5 wpm. Non-pianist #4 typed an average of 33 wpm. Non-pianist #5 typed an average of 27 wpm. The overall average of pianists was 35 wpm. The overall average of non-pianists was 34.9 wpm. Some patterns that are seen in the data are that the pianists and non-pianists basically type the same amount of words per minute, because 35 wpm and 34.9 wpm are essentially the same number. There isn’t really any difference between the