My secondary hypothesis is that females have better memories than men, I have decided to test this as this is what most women stereotype, especially after they are married the husband I always the one forgetting everyone while the wife remembers every single detail even the tiniest thing such as their anniversary.
My third Hypothesis is that memory declines as a person becomes older, I have based this theory on that the younger members of the family remember my birthday but the older ones as they get older begin to forget, and because they forget when you remind them you get double the present. So I am testing this theory to see if my free wealth is going to increase as I get older or decrease.
How will I test my hypothesis?
I will test my hypothesis in this question firstly by using the secondary evidence which will be provided to me via my mediocre school. This is a survey testing both males and females in years 7, 10, and 12. They will be tested on their memory of pictures, words and numbers. They will have 30 seconds to memorise and 60 seconds to write down what they can remember.
The only draw back to this source is that all the people being tested have slightly higher IQ’s than average, as only grammar school students are being tested. An improvement which I can instantly see that can be made is that a wider range of intellect should be approached.
I will secondly be testing my hypothesis with a further range of age groups I will be testing nursery children and year 2 children and then year 4 children, college students, 30+, and 60+ age groups. However a problem I may encounter is that the nursery students I will not be able to test on words and no, and the year 2 students will find the words more difficult to remember due to the fact they may find them difficult to read. However from this I maybe able to find that memory is also reliable on a persons interests and how well he/she understands something. I will be doing the exact same test as the school carried out, and on a total of about 25+ people.
So as you can see to complete the task I will simply need data of memory test results from a variety of different age groups form babies to old age pensioners. I will then take this data and convert it into many different graphs and formats, such as box and whisker diagrams, histograms etc. I will then calculate things such as the spread of the data etc. all this help to tell me on average which age group and which sex has the better memory. I will need the data to be fairly accurate so that I can achieve true results and not false ones. I am well aware that people mainly children are very competitive in the smallest of things so cheating may occur therefore to prevent this I will have to make sure that the marking is carried out by a different person and also that no ones writes anything down before they are supposed. I witnessed this problem during a trial experiment which we carried out in class. I will be able to check the accuracy of the data, by comparing my findings to that of a proved fully tested experiment about a similar topic form the internet, or a fellow classmate, who is carrying out a similar survey.
To investigate the task clearly I will things such as graph to illustrate my results, and this will then make it easier for me to be able to compare my results, however it is very difficult to compare each individual so I will be comparing each age group against one another.