Science+Experiment+1

=Scientific Method Template =
 * Topic:** Amount of fear tolerance in both males and females.


 * Question:** Does a male or female have a larger tolerance for fear?

To learn about what were common fears in teens, and what were the differences between the fears of a boy and a girl I went to the following sites. From these sites I learned that fears between boys and girls are about the same there is no difference, it just depends on the person. I went to sites with common fears, and compared them to other sites, and looked stuff up about fears, and learned that fears come from a bad experience that you have had with a particualar thing, which you might have had experienced it personally or if you saw in a movie or on tv. Your mind makes up stories that make you fear things, even if you now that those things will never happen your body becomes frightened when you see or hear or experience these things again, as I was reading in one of the following websites I leaned that fear, can just be a stage that will pass or may carry with you the rest of your life.
 * Background Information:**

The places that I got my research from were... http://www.realfears.com/list/a/ This is a website which i got most of my information from for my survey. This showed common fears in men and women, and what the medical terms were. It showed me that most fears that a person may have thinks is abnormal but are actually one of many people who feel the same way. There are millions of different fears our there in the world, and from this website you will learn that everybody has fear, and you shouldn't be embarrassed about it.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fear Basically this website wasn't really to help me learn more about fear, or why people have fear this was just to give me a better look on what i would be researching and dealing with.

http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2008/08/31/scots-mum-tells-of-bulger-fears-after-boys-take-her-toddler-son-from-garden-78057-20717714/ This website is not something that will explain about fear itself, but i believe that it goes great with my experiment. This was a news story about a little boy who became frightened about being kidnapped. The reason for this is because on the news and in the paper there had been talking about a young boy about the same age, who had the first name as this child. The child them became afraid because it happened to that child it would happen to him as well. Which shows that children get fear into their minds off tv, newspapers, and other people that are talking about it. Fear is something that is a natural stage in children's life and will eventually most children will grow out of it.

http://www.essortment.com/all/womenspsycholo_rxht.htm In here is information about why fears starts in people. Examples: If a women was rapped she may begin having a fear of dark places, or dead-end alleys. In adults fear is more complicated it doesn't come and go as it does in children. When an adult has a fear it is mainly because something in their past has happened, and they get afraid that it will happen again. If a women was rapped she may have to receive special treatment. When something has happened in the past to different people you have to watch what you say to them because, in most cases they are emotionally scared and will become more frightened if they being to talk about it again.


 * Hypothesis:** I think that the boys will have a larger fear tolerance amount, rather than girls.

1) First you must look up information about males and females and common fear, in order to get a better idea of what your experiment is about.
 * Procedure:** For my experiment the procedure is simple and easy.

2) After you are feeling comfortable with the subject, you will then go on computer and come up with questions and scenarios about fear.

3) The survey you make up should consist of at least five scenarios, and may have as many other words or frase that people may fear. Your survey must consist at least ten question.

4) Once your survey is completed go to twenty-five of your former classmates or people that you know to take your survey.

5) Survey an equal amount of males and females, and have the people write their gender in the corner of the paper.

6) After surveying your twenty-five people, add the numbers either one through ten on all the male and female sheets, and put the results in the graph.

7) Then you will look at the number, and see how much it is out of 550, and your results will then show you what gender has more fear tolerance.

8) The more people that you choose to survey, the more accurate your results will be.

9) When your experiment is completed you will then come up with new things to try, in case you decide that you would like to try this experiment again.


 * Materials:**
 * A computer on which you will do your research on
 * At least 25 who you will survey
 * A list of common fears in both male and female
 * Survey which you will test on your 25 people
 * An equal amount of males and females
 * Printer
 * Scanner to scan 25 papers on
 * A large amount of time to do your experiment
 * Chart to record you data onto

So the Experiment
 * Experiment:**

|| **Being home alone and going to bed at night** || **Going in the basement at night while everyone is outside** || **A haunted house with walls covered with spiders** || **Saw a scary and have scary thoughts in your head and you have to walk to up a flight of stairs that has no lights** || **Woken up by a banging noise while you are sleeping** || **Walk to your grandams house at night after you were just followed by a stranger** || **Needles in the Doctors office** || **Deep water** || **Heights** || **Death** || **Total Number** || || 33 || 56 || 64 || 49 || 55 || 52 || 32 || 36 || 53 || 71 || 501 || ||  39  ||    66 ||    60 ||    53 ||    58 ||    61 ||    53 ||    31 ||    41 ||    72  ||    **534** || From the data out of the graph above I learned that out of a total of 550 that the level of fear in boys is 501, and the level of fear in girls is 534. The data in the graph shows that boys in fact don't have as many fears as girls do, but shows that though boys try to act tough that they still do have fears. If this would have been a survey where you must put your name on it, the boys would obviously would have a much smaller number because they wouldn't want people to know that they are scared. This experiment can show people that genders have different kinds of fear, but both have some kind of fear no matter how tough they try to be.
 * Data/Results:**
 * **Boy**
 * **Girl**

While during my experiment I leaned that boys in fact do have a larger fear tolerance than girls. In my testing I surveyed a total of 25 students, which I tried to get an equal amount of girls and boys. Though the results may not be exact this is a very good estimate. From the guess that I wrote in my hypothesis of boys having a larger tolerance of fear, I was correct. Though the boys did not win by that large of a number they still one. Out of a total of 550 points, the boys has 501, and the girls had 534 which means that the girls only lost by 31 points, which may have been caused by a former experience. If i choose to do this experiment again I would probably change the fact of only doing 10 questions and would do this because if choosing to do more I could expand the level of fear and may be able to discover different common fears in boys. Changing the fact of getting and equal total of boys and girls may change the end results. As hard as I tried to get an equal amount I know that there were more boys than girls. Overall I think that this was a excellent experiment and people would learn a lot from this!
 * Conclusion:**