Analysis for the relationship of gender with their ability to react to stimuli was carried out, calculating each respondent’s reaction times in seconds through a formula relating time and distance in the equation. The values of the measures of central tendency (mean, median and mode) were close to each other, indicating the nearness of the values to each other for the overall performance of the respondents.
The very small difference of the means of the reaction time with respect to gender was 0.004416384 seconds, females having higher reaction times. Results from the correlation analysis using StatCrunch ™ showed that reaction time is not related of the gender of the respondents for this specific methodology, as implied by values obtained from correlation analysis. No stratification of the samples (male/female/unidentified) showed a positive Pearson correlation coefficient, even when each trial for all the components was concerned. Descriptive Analysis of Reaction time and its Correlation with Gender Reaction-time experiments are done to measure the alertness of the mind (James, 2007).This is an indication of the speed of the reflexes that humans have in variation.
There are simple reaction-time experiments which can be dealt with and the simplest is this experimental design. Our basic knowledge about reacting to stimuli was explored many times by different sets of studies to prove how the mind works, and how intense each reaction might be depending also in the intensity of the stimulus. Though plenty of limitations have been blocking science in its exploration, with all the debatable issues regarding the minds’ function, the formulation of the experiments dealing with reaction time is one of the most interesting, yet simple in some aspects in the study of mind characteristics. It was mentioned by William James (2007) in his book The Principles of Psychology the possible conditions that causes of the extent to which a person reacts on stimuli.He mentioned about the impression of an incoming event, the manner of thinking of how to react on the event and the voluntary category of reacting as the things to be considered in the prediction of the causes of reaction. The reflexive characteristics may also depend on which part was the stimulus applied or felt is one of his assumptions and man specialists in psychology claim.
Some of us also assume of the notion that males are more agile that females.The implications pertaining to this is that males are more likely to be sporty than females, which females will not agree with. Methods Data were collected from respondents with three different stratifications which includes male, female, and a person who chose not to reveal sexual identity. Their reaction time were computed by getting first the distances to which they were able to catch the yard sticks as being released by their partners. Ten trials were done for each of the 15 respondents comprised of 10 males, 4 females and 1 unidentified gender, summing up to an overall of 150 measurements of their reaction rates with different distances covered. Descriptive statistical analyses were carried out on the data gathered for their behavioral patterns and for proper data interpretation.
The dependence or “relatedness” of reaction time to the gender was evaluated using correlation analysis. Results Descriptive statistical analysis was employed in the distance measurements.With a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 38.8 and a range of 33.
8, a mean of 20.46947 was calculated. Standard deviation was 7.181951 with a variance of 51.58042. The value of the kurtosis and skewness were found to be -0.
01521 and 0.161602. The mode of the measurements from the respondents was 22 and a median of 21. The mean reaction time for the reaction time data with a minimum and maximum of 0.101 and 0.281 resulted to 0.
20123. Other measures of central tendency were also calculated with the median 0.207 and a mode of 0.197. The reaction times deviate from the mean by a value of 0.003068 as signified by the standard error.
The variance calculated was 0.001412. The skewness was 0.050756 and the kurtosis 0.050756. The scatter plot showed the maximum reaction time to be at trial two, and the slowest found in the 5th trial.
The box and whiskers plot shown in Figure 1 also showed maximum and minimum reaction times in each trial, with the values in trial 2 the highest computed reaction time but the box indicated a set of values that are more concentrated at the lower values. The trials which gave relatively precise values were trials 8 and 9. The scatter plot of reaction time vs. participant in Figure 2 showed respondent #5 to have high precision, followed by 2, 3 and 4 which have close scattering.
Respondent #15 performed with a totally scattered values of reaction time, with behaviour almost the same as the 7th respondent. The visual representation of the data plotted the maximum reaction time for the unidentified sex while the females showed a line with the lowest reaction time. A correlation analysis gave correlation coefficients of -0.03672413 for female, -0.2049573 for males, and for the unidentified sex was -0.1592492.
The correlation of the reaction time for n=15 was shown to be -0.14492838.Discussion The experiment was conducted by pairing a respondent, and persons who can participate in the analysis but were not included in the data gathering. The data to gather were the reaction time (in seconds) upon the execution of the instruction: to catch a yard stick upon throw of the partner, measuring also the distance left before the yard stick reaches the ground.
The goal of the experiment was to determine the relationship of reaction time with the gender if there are any. The data were first treated with descriptive statistical measurements to evaluate for the patterns and behaviour in the observations. Correlation analysis was done also for the gender-reaction time relationship.
