Questions

For our experiment, we decided to test how head size, in proportion with the body, would affect the balance of 1st graders. To my surprise, from our graphs, we observed that there is not a pattern. This could have happened either because there really isn't any relationship, or it could be due to the fact that the first graders did not balance for as long as they could have. Which means, they balanced for sometime and then stopped, not because they lost their balance, but because they thought that balancing a little was enough. Given their age, this is totally understandable and I wonder if our results would have been different if we had tested the Juniors in Mr. Nystrom's class. My prediction is that head size in proportion with the body, does affect your balance, but it's not the only factor. Some people, are more balanced than others and other factors come into place, such as, leg length, flexibility and the natural talent or abilities that some people have for some things and other people do not. Even though there are other factors, I believe that we would have been able to see a correlation, even though it would probably be  a minimal one. I believe that there would be a correlation because the bigger your head when compared to your body, the more weight you will have in front, and the less weight you would have in the back, consequently, affecting your equilibrium. Because we did not have extreme head sizes, either minimum or maximum, our histogram did not have a wide range. With a greater amount of trials and people in both extremes, our histogram would have been wider, and the curve would be easily observed.