1. Male VS Female Report
Destiny Foard
If males are more athletic than when given a choice the majority will choose males as being
more athletic, opposed to females. The majority of the participants said they thought males were
more athletic. Out if all 38 participants, 20 said they thought males were more athletic. 12 people
said they thought females were more athletic, and four said males and females athletic ability were
the same. (Refer to chart 2-D)
Process
To set up the experiment everyone in our psychology class wrote a theory construction. All of
our theories were to consist a theory of our own, and how we would like to test it in school. Then we
collected all the theories and chose six ideas the class was interested in. When categorized all the
theories fit into four categories. Such as media influences, male vs female, peer and social
pressure, and miscellaneous. After discussing all six of our choices we eliminated three by a
classroom vote. After having our last three idea we broke into groups and write about how we would
test that theory. Then after having a classroom discussion on all the theories and how we would test
them we chose male vs female athleticism. Once again the class broke off into groups to plan the
activities, write a legal document, make a chart and a questionnaire. After all the groups were done
we made a day plan for the experiment. In our groups we went to different classes and handed out
the legal document, and explained what they would be participating in if they agreed to help conduct
in the experiment. After all the classes gathered in the gymnasium we eliminated students by
random until we were left with 20 from each gender.
During our experiment we had a few controls. Two controls we had at the push up and sit up
station were when doing push ups, you had two dictionary's under your chest. The push up would
only count if your chest touched the books. The other control was when doing sit ups your partner
would stand on your feet,and count the number of sit ups you got in 30 seconds. Another control
was when choosing the groups to go station to station we chose them and we wrote down their
results from each station. The last control was before the activities started we got every participant

2. to fill in a questionnaire. Asking various questions such as did you eat breakfast this morning? Do
you be smoke? And so forth.
Unforeseen Variables
We had many unforeseen variables that could have affected the results. For the Illinois
shuttle run the floor was slippery, too much fine dust. And the males tried harder the the females. It
was acknowledged that not all the males did a 'full' push up. A few students did not have running
shoes or P.E. strip. Some of the students participating were special ed students.there might have
been too much time in between stations. There was always a group sitting out. Also we had
unbalanced grades and ages.
Our data and acknowledgement showed that males tried harder for better scores. And
weren't happy with a low or bad score such as 15 push ups in 30 seconds. But the females were
happy with 15 push ups in 30 seconds. It also showed that people can and do get embarrassed
from not being able to do a certain amount of pushups. We had one female walk out of the
gymnasium from being embarrassed.
Analysis
The data shows that males are ultimately more athletic than females based on average. And
females are more flexible. It also shows that the females injuries could have played a part on the
results. (Refer to chart 2-B) As well with their average amount of sleep the night before. (Refer to
chart 2-A)
The opinion of the participants were that males were more athletic than females. (Refer to
chart 2-D) The charts indicate that males are stronger than females on average. (Refer to charts 1A, 1-B, 1-E) The females would appear to be more flexible and quick on average. (Refer to charts 1C, 1-D)

3. Suggestions for the Future
I think the experiment was successful because it showed a definite pattern in the results. If I
were to add a variable to the experiment I would get every participant to stretch before and compare
the results. Or I would add music and have a control group and experimental group!
By adding music to the experiment it could change the experiment but also replicate the
results. If we adding music we could have had a control group and an experimental group. We
would have to have two sessions for the control groups and experimental to participate at different
times.