OH MY GOD ITS FINALLY OVER

praise the lord its oover. AT LAST.


GOOD BYE FOREVER DEAR SCIENCE BLOG. like no offence but i won't miss you one bit...

MORE RESULTS

HEY THERE! (i like your hair... who does you hair... i wanna go there..) ANYWAYS its pretty funny when you go on facebook and everyones status is just cursing the srp and how we all hate it and how we would all like to stab it in its COLD BLACK HEART.
but thats just what THEY say... talking behind your back SEE IM ALWAYS LOOKING OUT FOR YOU. WHAT HAVE YOU EVER DONE FOR ME.

erm so i got more results... i thought id just post them up. all our discussion and other stuff goes in our report yeah? we dont actually have to put it in here...

OK RESULTS:



so likeeeeee these results are just from my report which is almost done. but the rest of the graphs and tables are in the report. only the main ones are on this blog...

I HATE REFERENCING.

hate is a strong word. I HATE YOU SRP.

HEY SRP! JUST THOUGHT I'D THANK YOU FOR RUINING MY LONG WEEKEND. i should be out enjoying the sunshine but instead, im killing my eyeballs science blogging. JOY.

OK I'VE GOT ALL MY RESULTS NOW WOOO ABOUT TIME I KNOW. but 30 subjects is quite alot. seriously ive wasted half my life doing this thing.

ALRIGHTY ACCORDING TO THE MARKING SCHEME (which im treating like some kind of science bible) I SHOULD HAVE MY RAW DATA ON MY BLOG. so er here goes... all my calculations and averages and like analysed results will be in my actual report... YAY SO YOU CAN LOOK FORWARD TO THAT...





alrighty that took me while... UM SO im quite happy with my results because they're CONCLUSIVE. the magical word. YES THEYRE CONCLUSIVEEE. im seeing a difference between both eyes open, both eyes blindfolded and one eye patched, which is awesome.kinda the whole point of my experiment. BUT there were some weird funky results in there... BUT YEAH IM GOING TO LIKE IGNORE THOSE AND PUT THAT IN MY DISCUSSION AS "HUMAN ERROR" OR SOMETHING. woo. NOW I HAVE TO PUT ALL THIS INTO A PRO LOOKING REPORT. pch piece of cake... yeah no.

OH I ALMOST FORGOT. the whole beam thing was kinda of a bad idea. its not really testing my aim and its really inconclusive. so im going to scratch that... YAH.

so like i might just go and die in a hole now...

there's this facebook group thats like "i have a motivation problem until i have a time problem".

STORY OF MY LIFE.

OKAY i havent blogged for bit BUT THIS TIME I ACTUALLY HAVE A GOOD REASON. i've been handing out permission notes and experimenting on people and stuff which is taking a while... cause yeah 30 people D: so i really don't have anything to blog about. BUT IVE ALMOST GOT ALL MY RESULTS TOGETHER. and i shall publish them in all their glory for the world to see.

AND MIGHT I JUST SAY that my fellow year 10s are really really really REALLY unreliable when it comes to returning science-related permission notes. but me, im super reliable. shelley is going to finish her report and pass with flying colours.

yeah that was an oxymoron... what. I NEED SLEEP.

it's over baby, it's over

realisation: srp is due in like 2 weeks.

oh
my
god

AAAAAADFLKJALKREJGA.LSDJF;ASLDKLJHSRGKHDKGJHFJGH. OKAY. I AM GOING TO WORK ON THIS THING LIKE IVE NEVER WORKED BEFORE IN MY LIFE. srp you have ruined my life.

okay so igotta print out permission notes, hand them out like in person or via email and then get people to do stuff using the beam at school during lunch. alrighty...

im going to test myself first and i will post my results up in my next blog... GAAAAH must we have 30 subjects??

SO SRP, THAT IS ALL FOR NOW. I WOULD JUST LIKE TO REMIND YOU THAT I NEVER WISH TO SPEAK TO YOU AGAIN AFTER THIS TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE. that's right. im breaking up with you. snap.

LOL JK i could never leave you my darling srp...

you know what i should be doing right now? studying for a mr marussich science test for tomorrow. BUT NO. it is 7:30 and i still do not know wth the "retrograde motion of mars" is. the things i do for you srp...

OK SO APPARENTLY we have to have our method by this second blog submission... is it okay if im kinda still using the method i wrote for the first blog submission? I DONT KNOW. WHY AM I TALKING TO MYSELF.

ima just tweak it a bit and add some stuff in :)

Aim: To observe how much sight affects a person's ability to balance

Hypothesis: A person with an obstructed sense of sight will find it more difficult to balance as opposed to a person who has clear sight.

Equipment: heavy blindfold, eye patch, 30 subjects (with varying abilities to balance eg. ballet dancers and unco people), low stool, timer, low beam/plank of wood

Method:
1. Find a flat-surfaced area to conduct the experiment.
2. Get the subject to stand in the tree position and time how long they can stay in that position.
3. Blindfold the subject and repeat step 2.
4. Remove the blindfold and place an eyepatch over the subject's right eye and repeat step 2.
5. Place eyepatch over the subject's left eye and repeat step 2.
4. Record results, noting whether they may be better at balancing naturally (eg ballet dancer)
5. Repeat steps 2 - 4, except instead of the tree position, have the subject balance on one leg on a low stool.
6. Get the subject to walk across the low beam/plank of wood and time how long it takes them to reach the end and how many times they fall off.
7. Place an eyepatch over the subject's right eye and repeat step 6
8. Place an eyepatch over the subject's left eye and repeat step 6
9. Repeat all steps with other subjects

now to hunt down some humans to be my subjects [insert thunder, lightning and mad-scientist laugh here]

kickass was awesome

am i allowed to say that word which is a synonym of "backside" in this blog... ANYWAYS so wow this is my 5th blog. I AM ON A ROLL. "active blogger" status here i come...

so I've got approval from Miss Zhang to do this experiement but im seriously worried that in the end, it's all gonna go wrong and my results will be all messed up and stuff. and then i'll fail the SC and then i'll become a hobo and die D:

OKAAY POINT OF THIS BLOG: RESEARCH.
this site was pretty useful: http://www.lookupinfo.org/index.php?id=248 but it's got a lot of info so i'll do a little summary here:

people with monocular vision (vision in one eye) have
•difficulties working out where things are in relation to one another
•problems going up and down stairs
•difficulty with steps, kerbs, rocks, uneven ground and changes in floor level and escalators
•clumsiness
•problems with most sports
•problems with depth perception
•can't see three dimensional images - things may seem ‘flat’
•problems judging distance at less than about a metre

ok so this means i should see some different results between balancing with two eyes open and balancing with one eye open... phew good. Also maybe i wont just have people balance in a stationery position. Maybe walk across a LOW beam with one eye patched. i think i said previously i wouldn't do that, but my aim kinda change a tinsy bit so yah...

and there's also this site http://www.sightandhearing.org/news/healthissue/archive/hi_1003.asp which just has some background information, mainly for me to work with but thought i'd chuck it in here anyway

The balance system works with the visual and skeletal systems (the muscles and joints and their sensors) to maintain orientation or balance. For example, visual signals are sent to the brain about the body's position in relation to its surroundings. These signals are processed by the brain, and compared to information from the vestibular and the skeletal systems. An example of interaction between the visual and vestibular systems(vestibular-ocular reflex) is the nystagmus (an involuntary rhythmic eye movement) that occurs when a person is spun around and then suddenly stops.

EXCITING STUFF.

will blog soon with my new and improved method. Have been hardcore googling (cause i'm so cool) but can't find an experiment to kinda compare mine to... which is worrying cause i don't have anything to refer to for ideas and stuff. OH WELL. I AM AN INDEPENDENT YOUNG WOMAN. I CAN DO THIS.

yeah no.

Long time no see...

oh wow it's been a long time... i had to try like 5 different passwords to get into this before realising i typed my email with a full stop instead of an underscore. well then, i obviously need sleep... AND DOING THIS CLIMATE GRAPH ISNT HELPING MISS ZHANG. im joking :) i love climate graphs :)

and that, for anyone other than ms zhang reading this (so no one?), is how you get extra marks for science blogging (H) i joke...

if only i had a dollar for everytime i ctrl+c-ed and ctrl+v-ed today... ANYWAYS WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, I GIVE YOU MY AWESOME CLIMATE GRAPH:



t'is a masterpiece is it not? pfftph photoshop? who needs photoshop when you have paint?

ANYWAYS I HAVE OTHER SCHOOL RELATED THINGS TO DO CAUSE IM A GOOD GIRL. so stay tuned for the next thrilling, exciting and absolutely riveting science blog by moi...

why hello there *raises eyebrows suggestively*

OK SO LIKE i was full stressing the other day about blog I being due. i kept putting it off and putting it off and then BAM its the 11th March. AND NOW im stressing over the marks i may have lost on that first blog thingo. But, in my defence, my lack of blog entries was totally only because i was being thoughtful of miss zhang and how she has to read 150 of these things. So i was totally thinking of miss zhang by not writing blogs. really. im not joking.

ok maybe i am.

BUT TODAY i decided that i will be FULLY, 100% committed to being ACTIVE and updating my SRP blog regularly . because i love it so much. really, i do. im not joking.

ok maybe i am.

ok i'll stop.

NOW TO THE POINT OF THIS WHOLE BLOG ENTRY: just a teeny bit of research i wanna throw in.

So, I always thought that a persons balance is based on some funky chemical in our ear or something? Here's what http://www.asha.org/public/hearing/anatomy/ has to say:

Balance, or one' s sense of equilibrium, is controlled through the vestibular system that is contained in the inner ear. Balance and equilibrium help us stay erect when standing, know where we are in relation to gravity, and help us walk, run, and move without falling. The functioning of the vestibular system depends on information from many systems, hearing as well as vision and muscle feedback.

So i'm not doing WHETHER sight affects balance anymore, rather COMPARING how different levels of sight affects balance. Also, it's given me some other ideas about how to test the idea.

so yeah already thinking of changing some things around in my experiment. If I do make any changes, I won't be posting a new blog with the whole experiment, i'll just be tweaking it in my previous blog.... for anyone out there aside from miss zhang who actually care about me and my science problems... :D

AND FOLLOW ME. cause then it'll look like i have friends :)

EXPERIMENT IDEA

My blog's been pretty dead with "hello world" being my most productive post so far... and other people have so many entries...and they look so pro...depressed...BUT ON THE BRIGHT SIDE, i've come up with an idea for SRP (with help from miss zhang's email help thingy) yay!

WHETHER/HOW MUCH SIGHT AFFECTS A PERSON'S BALANCE

So I don't mean like walk across the beam blindfolded because then yes, it obviously affects your ability to do so (and i dont want my subjects to die).... I'm thinking more along the lines of whether it affects the balance of a person while they're stationary. So here's my idea for the experiment.

Aim: To observe whether/how much sight affects a person's ability to balance while stationary.

Hypothesis: A person with an obstructed sense of sight will find it more difficult to balance as opposed to a person who has clear sight.

Equipment: heavy blindfold, eye patch, 30 subjects (with varying abilities to balance eg. ballet dancers and unco people), low stool, timer

Method:
1. Find a flat-surfaced area to conduct the experiment.
2. Get the subject to stand in the tree position and time how long they can stay in that position.
3. Blindfold the subject and repeat step 2.
4. Remove the blindfold and place an eyepatch over the subject's right eye and repeat step 2.
5. Place eyepatch over the subject's left eye and repeat step 2.
4. Record results, noting whether they may be better at balancing naturally (eg ballet dancer)
5. Repeat steps 2 - 4, except instead of the tree position, have the subject balance on one lef on a low stool.
6. Repeat steps 2 - 5 with all other subjects

So I tried to get positions that were not too easy, not too hard to get more accurate results for the aim. Tried them out in my living room but not sure how reliable I am with my not-so-great balancing skills.

OH AND VARIABLES
independent variable: conditions under which subject is being tested. eg position, blindfolded or not etc...
dependent variable: how long the subject can stay in a position

I will most definitely be changing the experiment around once I try it out on my subjects (VOLUNTEERS? I have cookies :)) to try and get better results. Also change wording of a few things - had several mental blanks while writing this.

REALISATION: how these blog thingies are being marked. oh god. SCIENCE IS EVIL.

HELLO WORLD