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Does listening to Music improve your test score during the test?

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300 highschool students are randomly selected for this experiment, ages 14 to 18, 150 males 150 females.

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We gather every students ID number and split them into two based on if it is a male or female. After we split the ID groups into male and female we will have a random number generator pick 150 male student IDs and 150 female student IDs

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We will have 75 males and 75 females, a total of 150 students, listening to music while taking the test. The other 150 male and females will take the test normally and not listen to any music during the study.

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Our explanantory variable was whether the test subjects would listen to music during the test or not

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Our responce vairiable would be the results of the testing and to see if the scores of the music listeners matched up with the scores of the testers who tested in complete silence

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Our control group is the half that is taking the test without music playing. Also our experiment does not have a placebo because it is a listening test not a test where you would have to take a pill

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Our randomization process is to randomly select 150 male student ids to be split for testing, same goes for the female side, we will select 150 female student ids and split them for testing also. A lurking variable we could face would be intelligence and having to many intelligent people in one group so it could skew the data and make it inaccurate

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Our experiment would have neither a blind or a double blind because the test subjects will know if they are listening to the music and also we will know which group is taking the test with and without music

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The characteristics of our participants are that they are in highschool and they will be split be gender. 150 makle students and 150 female students will be selected to either take the test while listening to music or to take the test with no noise

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Our margin of error would be a 5.8% based on our 300 person sample size

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We can replicate the test with 300 new subjects with a new group of 150 females and 150 males. If data was not specific enough we could base it of the types of music we can play such as Rap, Rock, Classical and Country

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Average grade for Music listeners was 80.3%. Then the average grade for non-music listeners was 88.2%.

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The statistical significance in our data was that 80.3 % was the average score of the testers that were listening to music while 88.2% was the average score of the testers that did not listen to music. The difference between the two is 7.9%. Our random sample scored a 81% and the random sample was listening to music during the test. This is a .7% difference from the average

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Our salary for this experiment was $1,000. But our total expenses came up to $650, this included tests, headphones

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Volunterr #1- I was sat down in a classroom and handed a test. I took it and it wasn’t difficult.
Volunteer #2- When I was handed the test it seemed like it was going to be an easy test but when I was told I’d be listening to music I was pretty surprised at the fact that it was harder to concentrate on the test while listening to music

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Money was lost in this experiment because it was just for data. In conclusion students without did better on the test than students who were listening to music.