However there are advantages and disadvantages from each category. For example the advantages for the category working adults are
- They are working faster then housewives they have a time limit to do there work
- They may have a really active job
- They work for longer hours most of the time as they get up early on the day to start working
- Etc
However there are disadvantages for the category of working adults, they are;
- You may have a job in an office and hardly move a muscle
- You are only doing this job for a limited time so your pulse rate may go down when you stop working.
- You have breaks where you might make your pulse rate go down.
However the categories of housewives have many disadvantages’ and advantage to they do as well some of the advantages are;
- They are constantly doing something so there pulse rate is in a stable level so it may be higher than the working adults at the time of recording results.
- They work day and night not just one part of the day
However housewives also have a lot of disadvantages and some of them are;
- They don’t work as fast as working adults at most time
- They don’t have a time limit to do anything so they can be as lazy as they want most of the time
- Maybe working adults have a really active lifestyle and job so housewives wont be able to beat that
- Etc
I think this all depends on the majority of jobs people have in order to find the highest pulse rate.
Here is a table showing my collected results:
The average Bpm for this table is average:80bpm
This is quantitative data and also primary data as I collected all the data myself. I have used stratified sampling as I have got two categories in my table, housewives and the other category is working adults. But I haven’t only used stratified sampling I have also used a bit of convenience sampling because I have sampled the first person that either fits in one of my categories.
Now if I rearrange the data so everything is in order of size from biggest to smallest.
If you look carefully then you will be able to see that there is a pattern in this table in every two pairs of numbers the units are adding on 1
Person Bpm
Peron 3 63bpm
Person 6 64bpm
Person 5 72bpm
Person 7 82bpm
Person 2 85bpm for example person 3 and 6 work, person 8 and 1
Person 4 86bpm
Person 8 88bpm
Person 1 81bpm
Now here is a table showing the results of my collected data of working adults pulse rate per min.
Person Bpm average pulse rate:
Person 1 63bpm 67bpm
Person 2 69bpm
Person 3 84bpm
Person 4 61bpm
Person 5 72bpm
Person 6 54bpm
Person 7 67bpm
Person 8 62bpm
If I rearrange this in order of size from smallest to biggest it looks like this
I don’t think I can see any pattern in this table maybe there is a pattern but too complicated for me to know or see
Person Bpm
Person 6 54bpm
Person 4 61bpm
Person 8 62bpm
Person 1 63bpm
Person 7 67bpm
Person 2 69bpm
Person 5 72bpm
Person 3 84bpm
I have also used the same method in this table that I used in the previous table to make the test fair. Now I will use all my results to make a graph in order to look for any more patterns, to make it more eligible for others to read and to show my mathematical skills.
I have noticed in this graph that almost in all the occasions of each person the category housewives’ nearly always has a higher pulse rate than working adults.
Here is another graph with the same results to make it easy for others to read, for those who can’t read bar charts. Normally people can read a bar graph but there are the odd ones out so I have put an extra graph on but a line graph to make it eligible for others to read.
There is a line graph in the next page:
I guess after all this investigating, this answers my question. I have found out the average pulse rate for a housewife is greater than a average pulse rate than for a working adult. But I have found the answer, but I also have realised that this answer does not match my hypothesis. I thought that a working adult would have a higher pulse rate but a housewife did, I wonder why? I think I will need to investigate further to find the answer to that.
I results of my question came out like this because the majority of working adults had a slow steady job, most were just working in a office. Working in a office meant not doing much moving, although there were some with really active jobs like a fitness coach but there wasn’t enough working adults with a active job to make the pulse rate average go higher, there was just too many boring working adults in a office. But the majority of housewives didn’t have active lives but because they were working constantly, there pulse rate stayed on a steady beat and impressively the average pulse rate were actually higher. Housewives are always doing some cleaning vacuuming; washing up you wouldn’t believe that would even make any impact on a pulse rate but it do at the time of recording the results.
To make a general statement, I would say definitely that housewives have a higher pulse rate according to my results. But this can be changed, if the majority of working adults had a more active job, the average pulse rate could go up, but if housewives always stay like this and working adults do nothing about it then they would be the winners of the highest pulse rate. So I guess if any time my dad the working adult says he tired then I would say that my mum the housewife is even more tired.
To prove my statement and make my results even more reliable I have found some resources from the internet that also agree with my results.
This is a graph from the internet with just the house wives pulse rate. [above graph]
Here are results from someone else that I have found over the internet. But this one is better as it has results from years ago. This graph shows the results of people who have had really boring office jobs all these years. As you can see in the graph this graph matches my results with all the amount of boring jobs looks like that in future jobs may get better and the answer may change to my question. And if you look at the graph with the house wives you can see that the pulse rates are going down so here is another reason why my answer may change in a few years.
By Nilema \Nasrine.
