Do Males and Females Have Different Abiliies When Estimating Size
Abstract
Scientists have been studying gender differences for a very long time. The experiment we’ve done is to test if there is any difference between males and females on estimating size, which we strongly believed that males are better than females. A pen, a cell phone and a notebook were the objects which were used in the experiment. The three objects were given to the people who was involved in the experiment to estimate size. The actual result we got was just the same with our hypothesis that males are better than females when estimating size, however, some people’s result might have effected by other people’s. What’s more , the differences between different gender are more than this, such as brain difference and physical differences.
Introduction :
There are a lot of scientists who have studied the sex differences in spatial abilities. They designed different kinds of experiments to test this. The purpose of this experiment is to see if different genders has the effect on estimate size. A report in Psychology Press named Consequences of severe visual-spatial deficits for reading acquisition: Evidence from Williams syndrome suggested that the difference might also caused by DNA. The experiment is about a difference that might caused by DNA which is estimating size. In this experiment, the hypothesis is that males are usually better at estimating size than females.
Methods:
Ten males and ten females from age 20 to 40 were tested in the experiment. They were chosen randomly in a coffee shop. Each of then was asked to estimate three different objects, which are the length of a pen, the length of a cell phone and the surface area of a notebook. They were allowed to hold those objects and compare them. The number that men and women got has been filled in the chart and be analyzed.
Results:
| |Length of a pen（cm） |Length of a cell phone(cm) |Surface area of a notebook(mm^2) |
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Scientists have been studying gender differences for a very long time. The experiment we’ve done is to test if there is any difference between males and females on estimating size, which we strongly believed that males are better than females. A pen, a cell phone and a notebook were the objects which were used in the experiment. The three objects were given to the people who was involved in the experiment to estimate size. The actual result we got was just the same with our hypothesis that males are better than females when estimating size, however, some people’s result might have effected by other people’s. What’s more , the differences between different gender are more than this, such as brain difference and physical differences.
Introduction :
There are a lot of scientists who have studied the sex differences in spatial abilities. They designed different kinds of experiments to test this. The purpose of this experiment is to see if different genders has the effect on estimate size. A report in Psychology Press named Consequences of severe visual-spatial deficits for reading acquisition: Evidence from Williams syndrome suggested that the difference might also caused by DNA. The experiment is about a difference that might caused by DNA which is estimating size. In this experiment, the hypothesis is that males are usually better at estimating size than females.
Methods:
Ten males and ten females from age 20 to 40 were tested in the experiment. They were chosen randomly in a coffee shop. Each of then was asked to estimate three different objects, which are the length of a pen, the length of a cell phone and the surface area of a notebook. They were allowed to hold those objects and compare them. The number that men and women got has been filled in the chart and be analyzed.
Results:
| |Length of a pen（cm） |Length of a cell phone(cm) |Surface area of a notebook(mm^2) |
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