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Re: Experimental Design B/C

Posted: April 18th, 2013, 6:53 pm
by caseyotis
mrburrito wrote:I wish I went to your regionals, that sounds fun.
The cantilever? Or the state competition paper airplane thing? Yeah, that does, actually. But it's really easy.

Re: Experimental Design B/C

Posted: April 18th, 2013, 7:26 pm
by Cjkowalcz
He is talking about the paper airplane thing, and Blwrunner accidentally made a typo. It was our regional competition that had to do with paper airplanes.

Re: Experimental Design B/C

Posted: April 19th, 2013, 10:47 am
by Blwrunner
What are you talking about CJ.

Re: Experimental Design B/C

Posted: April 19th, 2013, 12:16 pm
by caseyotis
Oh. xD Well, yeah, that does sound pretty fun. The cantilever was kind of stupid, in my opinion, because it was too hard to control.

Re: Experimental Design B/C

Posted: April 19th, 2013, 4:23 pm
by mrburrito
Cjkowalcz wrote:He is talking about the paper airplane thing, and Blwrunner accidentally made a typo. It was our regional competition that had to do with paper airplanes.
I meant the cantilever, but the airplanes sound cool.

Re: Experimental Design B/C

Posted: April 20th, 2013, 10:37 am
by 49ers
When the rules state "any other relevant statistics" what would this entail? Are there any that I should really know for a State level competition?

Re: Experimental Design B/C

Posted: April 20th, 2013, 5:46 pm
by caseyotis
49ers wrote:When the rules state "any other relevant statistics" what would this entail? Are there any that I should really know for a State level competition?
Under "statistics," (at least, for B; I don't know whether or not this will be useful to you) you should definitely have the mean, median, mode, range, and possible outliers in your data. A great thing to include for states is standard deviation (it's hard to explain, and something online would probably do a better job of explaining it than me anyways). Tables look nice to show this data. xP

Re: Experimental Design B/C

Posted: April 20th, 2013, 5:48 pm
by hc1220
I usually don't include a mode, unless there actually is one. Usually there isnt

Re: Experimental Design B/C

Posted: April 21st, 2013, 7:24 am
by Cjkowalcz
Same here. Most of my experiments include accurate measurements, and answers never come out the same, so I can hardly ever include a mode.

Re: Experimental Design B/C

Posted: April 21st, 2013, 7:30 am
by caseyotis
Well, if applicable, those things. :lol: