Butler Chocolate Experiment
Eating Chocolate Helps Students Become Happier
Henry Vuong
Dennis Lin
Stella Zhang
Introduction:
Our experiment is based on a former experiment described in the article A Scientific Experiment, In Search of Chocolate Happiness. It was an experiment in a mall Cafe called Butler Chocolate, with a purpose of finding a way to help shoppers become happier. By giving each customer a piece of Butler 's chocolate, the Cafe hoped to increase the number of smiling faces at the mall. Early findings have shown the importance of the research with shoppers averaging a happiness rating of 4/10 to begin, rising dramatically to an average of 5.6 after a Butler’s chocolate sample - a 16% increase in happiness. (Butler 's Chocolates 2014)
Our group found this experiment compelling and decided to replicate it, however, we added another phase. It was to have the participants, from both experimental and control groups, watch a funny video, our purpose was that we did not want them to know which group they were in.
As mentioned above, we divided our test subjects into two group, experimental and control groups. We wanted different survey results between the two; therefore, we had to differentiate the methods of testing them. We were to compare them based on the control group and to find a figure that is significant enough to show whether the …show more content…
The Control group went outside with Dennis while the other group stayed in the classroom with Stella and I. We then both started to show the participants the funny video. As the Experimental group was watching, I began passing out chocolate to them. For I brought a party size bag, participants in class could get as much chocolate as they want; therefore, they would be satisfied having enough chocolate. After the video, the Control group then returned to the classroom and Stella began to pass out surveys for the test subjects to fill
Henry Vuong
Dennis Lin
Stella Zhang
Introduction:
Our experiment is based on a former experiment described in the article A Scientific Experiment, In Search of Chocolate Happiness. It was an experiment in a mall Cafe called Butler Chocolate, with a purpose of finding a way to help shoppers become happier. By giving each customer a piece of Butler 's chocolate, the Cafe hoped to increase the number of smiling faces at the mall. Early findings have shown the importance of the research with shoppers averaging a happiness rating of 4/10 to begin, rising dramatically to an average of 5.6 after a Butler’s chocolate sample - a 16% increase in happiness. (Butler 's Chocolates 2014)
Our group found this experiment compelling and decided to replicate it, however, we added another phase. It was to have the participants, from both experimental and control groups, watch a funny video, our purpose was that we did not want them to know which group they were in.
As mentioned above, we divided our test subjects into two group, experimental and control groups. We wanted different survey results between the two; therefore, we had to differentiate the methods of testing them. We were to compare them based on the control group and to find a figure that is significant enough to show whether the …show more content…
The Control group went outside with Dennis while the other group stayed in the classroom with Stella and I. We then both started to show the participants the funny video. As the Experimental group was watching, I began passing out chocolate to them. For I brought a party size bag, participants in class could get as much chocolate as they want; therefore, they would be satisfied having enough chocolate. After the video, the Control group then returned to the classroom and Stella began to pass out surveys for the test subjects to fill