ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

A BIG THANKYOU!

COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT THE 75 WONDERFUL ST GEORGIANS WHO VOLUNTEERED THEIR BRAIN POWER

(OR SAID YES WHEN I ASKED...)

RAW EXPERIMENTAL DATA...

AND WHEN I SAY RAW... I MEAN R.A.W.

By the way... all names have been removed due to protect the privacy (or save the embarassment) of volunteers :)

DATE	Colour	LETTER SCORE	NUMBER SCORE
2/6/2010	red 1	8	8
2/6/2010	red 2	8	8
2/6/2010	red 3	8	8
2/6/2010	red 4	7	6
2/6/2010	red 5	8	8
2/6/2010	red 6	3	8
2/6/2010	red 7	6	8
2/6/2010	red 8	8	8
2/6/2010	red 9	8	8
2/6/2010	red 10	8	8
2/6/2010	red 11	8	8
2/6/2010	red 12	5	4
2/6/2010	red 13	8	8
2/6/2010	red 14	8	7
2/6/2010	red 15	6	5
4/6/2010	yellow1	8	5
4/6/2010	yellow2	8	8
4/6/2010	yellow3	8	8
4/6/2010	yellow4	8	8
4/6/2010	yellow5	8	4
4/6/2010	yellow6	7	8
4/6/2010	yellow7	8	8
4/6/2010	yellow8	8	5
4/6/2010	yellow9	6	7
4/6/2010	yellow10	8	6
4/6/2010	yellow11	7	8
4/6/2010	yellow12	8	6
4/6/2010	yellow13	8	2
4/6/2010	yellow14	8	8
4/6/2010	yellow15	5	8
7/6/2010	Black 1	2	8
7/6/2010	Black 2	8	8
7/6/2010	Black 3	5	8
7/6/2010	Black 4	8	4
7/6/2010	Black 5	6	8
7/6/2010	Black 6	8	8
7/6/2010	Black 7	8	4
7/6/2010	Black 8	4	8
7/6/2010	Black 9	8	7
7/6/2010	Black 10	8	8
7/6/2010	Black 11	8	8
7/6/2010	Black 12	3	4
7/6/2010	Black 13	6	8
7/6/2010	Black 14	2	2
7/6/2010	Black 15	8	3
7/6/2010	green 1	8	8
7/6/2010	green 2	6	7
7/6/2010	green 3	3	8
7/6/2010	green 4	6	4
7/6/2010	green 5	8	8
7/6/2010	green 6	6	8
7/6/2010	green 7	5	6
7/6/2010	green 8	5	8
7/6/2010	green 9	8	8
7/6/2010	green 10	8	8
7/6/2010	green 11	7	8
7/6/2010	green 12	8	8
7/6/2010	green 13	6	6
7/6/2010	green 14	8	8
7/6/2010	green 15	6	8
10/6/2010	blue 1	6	8
10/6/2010	blue 2	7	8
10/6/2010	blue 3	8	8
10/6/2010	blue 4	8	8
10/6/2010	blue 5	5	6
10/6/2010	blue 6	8	6
10/6/2010	blue 7	8	8
10/6/2010	blue 8	8	8
10/6/2010	blue 9	7	6
10/6/2010	blue 10	6	8
10/6/2010	blue 11	8	8
10/6/2010	blue 12	6	7
10/6/2010	blue 13	5	6
10/6/2010	blue 14	8	8
10/6/2010	blue 15	7	8

a peek at the results :D

HMMM.... not as sucessful as hoped but the fact that black had a lower average is interesting...

NOTE: Other previously unmentioned changes...

I realised that the colours ORANGE and YELLOW were too closely related especially on a screen...
(see what I mean?!)

and therefore decided to ELIMINATE ORANGE.

Other change I havent mentioned on my blog is the use of a CONSTANT VARIABLE where the letters and numbers shall appear in the colour...
BLACK (only this font will make it appear greyish on my blog but MOVING ALONG...)


I believe these changes have made my experiment FAR more valid :)

THE SECONDS HAVE BEEN REDUCED TO 16 SECS.
THAT IS... ABOUT 2 SECS PER QUESTION...

HEADS DOWN!

I am currently working on the slides which will be created through 

                   POWERPOINT

HMM... I am also wondering wether or not using random numbers/letters instead of the same set would be better... would this make it a fairer test?

METHOD

A female year 10 student was seated in a comfortable upright position. A prepared slide of eight red letters was shown. The subject was given 30 seconds to memorise the letters. The subject wrote down eight letters. The accuracy was recorded as a percentage. A prepared slide of eight red numbers was shown. The subject was given 30 seconds to memorise the numbers. The subject wrote down eight numbers. The accuracy was recorded as a percentage.The experiment was repeated with another fourteen female year 10 students (fifteen altogether). This entire process was then repeated with five more lots of fifteen students (all female and in year 10). With each group, a different colour was used – orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. Averages were then recorded.