Experience Playing
Piano vs. Typing Speed
Brett Smiley, Melinda Westfall, Bradley Biggs
Melinda
Procedure
O Asked people at second lunch on A days if
they played piano or not
O Systematic sample – every third person
starting on the first
O Took them into the library to take a 30
second typing test
O Typed from the same spot in a Government
textbook
O Told them not to fix any mistakes made
Brad
Brett
Brett
y = 0.8253x + 49.904
R = 0.2205
Brad
Analysis
The critical value for a sample size of 20 is 0.444.
Our value for R was 0.2205, which indicates there
isn’t any correlation according to our study. While
there is no correlation, the minimum typing speed
does fall on the lower end of piano playing
experience. Likewise, the fastest typing speed
belongs to someone with piano experience higher
than the average number of years. The other
values are pretty scattered throughout, which is
why there is no correlation.
Melinda
Conclusion
Since our R value of 0.2205 falls underneath
the critical value of 0.444 for a sample size of
20, there is no correlation between typing
speed and experience playing the piano. Thus,
our research question has been answered.
The number of years playing the piano is not
related to one’s typing speed.