Age+&+Reaction+-+CA

Does Age affect your reaction timing? Have you ever wondered what things you lose or gain with age? Well I don’t have the time to test for everything, but I was looking on the internet for a good science fair project. I saw this test and thought this would be a really fun and interesting thing to try. It will involve reaction time and comparing the effect of age on it.
 * __ Problem __**
 * __ Introduction __**

Age- how old or how young something is Affect- how something changes from some sort of cause.
 * __ Background Information __**

I predict that the older the people are, the longer take it will take them to catch the falling ruler. The average by gender and age 10-15 girls-5.73 inches 10-15 boys-5.4 inches 20-45 girls-4.89 inches 20-45 boys-5.86 inches 46-65 girls-7.53 inches 46-65 boys-5.87 inches In the end their wasn’t really much of a conclusion. My table and graph show that there is not a relationship. Some of the adults averages were not as fast or as slow as the younger people. Some were a lot longer and others were slower. But not a constant relationship. Difference in age groups
 * __ Hypothesis __**
 * __ Materials __**
 * 1) Ruler
 * 2) 5 10-15 year old girls
 * 3) 5 10-15 year old boys
 * 4) 5 20-45 year old girls
 * 5) 5 20-45 year old boys
 * 6) 5 46-65 year old girls
 * 7) 5 46-65 year old boys
 * __ Procedure __**
 * 1) Find all materials
 * 2) Have every person from each category one by one come to me
 * 3) Hold a ruler above their fingers about half an inch.
 * 4) Drop the ruler and see how many inches their finger land on
 * 5) The bigger the number, the slower the reaction time
 * __ Results __**
 * __ Conclusion __**
 * __ Possible Causes of Error __**

Testing reaction timing in if older people should be aloud to drive or not. In driving you are going to need a fairly good reaction timing of course. If we do these tests we might be able to make driving safer by eliminating people with too slow of a reaction time to drive. In result not as many accidents will happen if the only people who drive are the one with a fast enough reaction to hit the brakes when needed. September-December
 * __ Possible Applications __**
 * __ Time Spent __**

Victoria McManus Mr. Durahm Rachel Carter Mr. Brownlee Maryn Robson Mr. Ames Aubree Nuest Mrs. Ricker Taylor Wood Mrs. Krueger Zach Brashear Mrs. Prather Trey Wrench Mrs. Calderwood Matt Stover Mrs. Peterson Tanner Stallings Trey Bagby Mrs. Riffel Mrs. Ball Mrs. Schechter Mrs. Roland Mrs. Flickinger Mr. Anderson Mr. Schneider Mr. Bauerle Mr. Badore Mr. Feil Mr. Weiner Mr. Comley
 * __ Acknowledgements __**


 * **Boys by age** || **Person 1 avg.** || **Person 2 avg.** || **Person 3 avg.** || **Person 4 avg.** |||| **Person 5 avg.** || **Over all avg.** ||
 * 10-15 yrs. || 2.33 inches || 5 inches || 5.67 inches || 9.67 inches || 4.33 inches ||  || 5.4 inches ||
 * 20-45 yrs. || 6.67 inches || 3 inches || 4.3 inches || 6 inches || 9.33 inches ||  || 5.86 inches ||
 * 46-65 yrs. || 6 inches || 7.33 inches || 4.67 inches || 5.67 inches || 5.6 inches ||  || 5.87 inches ||
 * **Girls by age** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 10-15 yrs. || 3.33 inches || 7 inches || 8 inches || 4.33 inches || 6 inches ||  || 5.73 inches ||
 * 20-45 yrs. || 5.67 inches || 4.33 inches || 4.83 inches || 5.16 inches || 4.5 inches ||  || 4.89 inches ||
 * 46-65 yrs. || 6 inches || 7 inches || 7 inches || 6.33 inches || 11.33 inches ||  || 7.53 inches ||
 * 46-65 yrs. || 6 inches || 7 inches || 7 inches || 6.33 inches || 11.33 inches ||  || 7.53 inches ||