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Help! Science fair project ideas!

PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 2:08 pm
by TheMewster
I've gotta do a science fair project. My scientific interests are computers, psychology, (if religion is a science then that), art, gaming, and sleeping. Especially computer science and psychology/behavioral science. It HAS to be an experiment. Any ideas? Tried ask.com search engine. Found one but need backup. HELP!!! God bless!

PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 8:27 pm
by QtheQreater
Documenting a social experiment for psychology (social psychology) might be fun. Like adopting accents from different countries and seeing how people in stores treat you (or something like that).

Here's a random website with concepts that you could try: http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/activities.htm

PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 8:40 pm
by airichan623
...maybe one on how certain music affects a person sleep?

...maybe comparing the benefits of running to the benefits of a DDR workout? :)


Science fair projects are always interesting. I did mine on the advertisement tyoe ratios during different times of day when in sixth grade.

PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 8:48 pm
by K. Ayato
How music affects study habits? *giggle*

PostPosted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 2:31 pm
by TheMewster
Maybe? I have an idea. Don't know the website I found it but it's about the guessability of passwords. Need to bet it by my science teacher though.

PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 8:03 pm
by Mr. SmartyPants
If it's a science fair project, then you'll need to have two sets of groups for experimentation: a control group and an experimental group. And with them you need independent and dependent variables.

And after that you need to see if tweaking a variable produces an outcome that produces a different outcome and whether or not if it's "statistically significant".

Some classic ones are seeing how people's helping behavior is different depending on gender. If someone drops a stack of papers in a crowded area, will people be more likely to help if they are a male? Or if female? Or what if the person who dropped the stack of papers was a female? Would she be helped more than a male person who dropped a stack of papers?

I mean your options are pretty endless here. Be creative!

PostPosted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 11:45 am
by Kaligraphic
Set up a multi-day LAN party, and keep the people awake and playing for several days straight. Document the effects of sleep deprivation on their performance in the game.

Create a strong AI and psychoanalyze it.

Create ambiguously disturbing art and see if men or women are more disturbed by it. You can broaden this to any information you can collect.