Ottawa Carleton Smalltalk Users Group:
The Great Apple Experiment Software
David Buck A few weeks ago, our local Scout troop did an experiment to earn their science badges. David wrote some software in Smalltalk to organize the experiment and calculate the results? How do you capture over 2000 numbers collected from 20 scouts and calculate results within an hour? Come and find out.
Location: The Code Factory
246 Queen Street, Ottawa
Thursday, February 24th, 2011 at 6:00pm
Monday, February 21, 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Great Apple Experiment results
Well, the Great Apple Experiment by my son's scout troop is finished. We had all the scouts rank their own apples then rank all of the other apples on a scale from 1 (best looking) to 9 (worst looking). Excluding the scout's ranking of their own apples, I averaged the ratings for each type of apple and got the following results:
The Lemon line clearly shows a benefit with 62 apple slices being ranked as 1. The open air apples were the worst with 109 being ranked as 9. The remaining apples seemed to follow a very similar distribution.
The results don't demonstrate any positive effect of saying nice things to apples or any negative effect of saying bad things to apples. We're left with the null hypothesis that saying things to apples is ineffective.
Thanks to all the scouts who participated and congratulations on earning your science badges.
- Love
- Mean: 4.23
- Standard Deviation: 2.43
- Mean rating of scout's own apples: 3.31
- Hate
- Mean: 4.54
- Standard Deviation: 2.34
- Mean rating of scout's own apples: 3.5
- Neutral
- Mean: 4.82
- Standard Deviation: 2.41
- Mean rating of scout's own apples: 4.9
- Control
- Mean: 4.18
- Standard Deviation: 2.41
- Mean rating of scout's own apples: 3.8
- Lemon
- Mean: 3.48
- Standard Deviation: 2.57
- Mean rating of scout's own apples: 3.38
- Open Air
- Mean: 7.50
- Standard Deviation: 2.11
- Mean rating of scout's own apples: 7.75
The Lemon line clearly shows a benefit with 62 apple slices being ranked as 1. The open air apples were the worst with 109 being ranked as 9. The remaining apples seemed to follow a very similar distribution.
The results don't demonstrate any positive effect of saying nice things to apples or any negative effect of saying bad things to apples. We're left with the null hypothesis that saying things to apples is ineffective.
Thanks to all the scouts who participated and congratulations on earning your science badges.