section 2a

I split the twenty-four students into one group of twelve females and one group of twelve males and put them into two labelled rooms, room A in which all the females will carry out their predictions and room B in which the males will be carrying out the test. I then further split the twelve males into six age groups containing two eleven, two twelve, two thirteen, two fourteen, two fifteen, and two sixteen year old, so that I do not have an overwhelming amount of males to test at one time as this would create confusion and then no organisation and that would lead to an invalid results, I took the two eleven year old males first to test and I told the remaining sample of male students to go to room G and wait, I then asked the eleven year old males to remove anything which might affect the data collection process such as calculators or pieces of paper with calculations written on because that would inhibit my data from being valid and reliable, then I gave them three sheets of paper; one sheet on their age and gender, an instruction sheet which briefly went through what going to happen and what is allowed and what is not allowed and the other sheet of paper was the twenty multiplication and division questions, I then read the instruction sheet out and explained each rule one by one and asked if there were any questions or things they were unsure about, once I had resolved any queries I carried on, once I completed reading the instructions sheet I checked around and asked individuals personally if they had any concerns as I have had my own previous knowledge that some students might be embarrassed or shy to ask any questions in front of others, this therefore was insuring that there would be a lesser of a chance of any thing to be...

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...en I want to use it as proof that my data was reliable then, I will have it to decrease any chance of anomalous results or Processing error where you calculate wrong by mistake.

Then, I asked all thirty female participants to come and follow me into any room and I asked them all to write down how long on average it took males form elven to sixteen to complete the same set of questions as them, I asked them after the experimental questions because now they could get an idea of how well they assume it would take males to complete the same questions as them and if I had asked them before the experiment they would of instantly knew that they that were being tested on their times and not the questions.

I then went to school B and did the exact same thing for them as I did for the females. This test now showed whether gender has an effect on how well somebody can predict.