Robby Randolph

Miss Coley
Statistics
12 February 2018

Experiment:
− Materials needed for this experiment will be: a blindfold, noise canceling headphones, a

roll of blue tape, a sharpie, a tape measure, a yard stick, a calculator, and a piece of piece

of paper with a writing utensil.

o Step 1: Take the roll of blue tape and cut off a fifty-foot piece of tape. After

cutting off the piece of tape, place the tape in the center of the hallway, with equal

distance between each set of lockers on each side.

o Step 2: Next, select 30 participants from your class and available study halls.

Each participant will place the blindfold in front of their eyes and tie it around

their head, so they cannot see. Once the participant is blindfolded, they will place

the noise canceling headphones over their ears so the cannot hear. Place the

participant at the beginning of one end of the tape line.

o Step 3: Before the experiment begins, have a student stand behind the participant,

following him so he can tap on his shoulder again to inform the participant to start

walking down the line, and when to stop walking. Once the participant walks two

feet to away from either side of the center tape line, tap on the participants

shoulder so he knows to stop.

o Step 4: Once the participant stops walking on either side of the blue line, have the

participant stand still in place while a student takes the yard stick and places it on
 the ground next to the participants feet, intersecting the blue tape line at a 90-

degree angle. After placing the yard stick down, take a sharpie and place a line on

the tape with the participants initials, indicating that’s how far the participant

walked in a straight line for.

o Step 5: Repeat steps two through four for each of the thirty participants. Once all

thirty marks are on the piece of tape, take the tape measurer and have a person

standing at the beginning of the tape line with the tape measurer and have another

person take the measurer and walk out to each of the thirty marks and write down

every distance.

Calculations:

− Sample mean

o Add all the data up and divide by thirty

− Sample standard deviation

o Use your calculator and hit the stat button

o Hit the edit button and put all the data into list one

o Hit the stats button again and the scroll down to calc

o Hit 1-var stats, then hit calculate and find the standard deviation

− Critical value

o InvT(df,n-1)

− Margin of error

o Tc(s/square root of n)
 − Confidence interval

o (x-E) (x+E)

Data:

− Sample mean

o 188.8833333

− Standard Deviation

o 92.55417178

− Critical Value

o 2.04522961

− Margin of Error

o 34.56029518

− Confidence Interval

o (154.3230, 223.4436)

Conclusion:

I needed to test thirty people because it makes the data more accurate. If I had less

participants, the data would be less accurate, and would have more room for error. If I could

build off the experiment above, I would test it on a much larger scale. I would take the

participants outside and track them on GPS. I feel like I would get better results if I did this.

Possible sources of error could be when we measured the distance traveled in the straight line.

We could have measured the wrong distances with the tape measurer. In conclusion, I found out

that humans can walk an average distance of 188.88 inches or 16 feet while blind folded and def.
This is very surprising because I didn’t know that humans can't walk in a straight line while

blind.