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toc **Are You Gonna' Eat That**

Specific Question
Does communication affect peoples eating habbits

Hypothesis
It is hypothesized that the subjects will choose to ignore the sign and will take the junk food even if they know it is unhealthy.



General Plan
=**Experimental Design**=
 * In this experiment the experimenter figured out if communication will change whether people eat healthier. The experimenter gave the option of carrots and celery or Oreos and a Donut. For the second experiment the experimenter will place a message next to the vegetables saying “Eat Your Veggies”. **

Resources and Budget Table

 * __Material__ || __Place__ || __Price__ ||
 * Baby Carrots || hanaford ||  ||
 * Celery Sticks || hanaford ||  ||
 * Original Oreo Cookies || hanaford || 3.99 ||
 * Donut || hannaford ||  ||
 * Signs about healthy stuff || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Computer || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Camera || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">JBES || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free ||

Data Table
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Time Line
<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. March 19 hand out permission slips (JBES) ** <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"> **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. March 21 Run first trial (JBES) ** <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. March 23 Run second trial (JBES) **

Detailed Procedure
<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1.) Hand out permission slips to people who want to participate in the experiment ** =**Photo List**= <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tray w/ veggies **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2.) Lay food out in front of people who are in the experiment **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3.) Tell them that they can choose healthy food or the junk food **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4.) Take pictures of tray w/ veggies, ,junk food, people eating, and the message sign **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5.) Record what each chose on spreadsheet **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6.) For the second experiment, put a message in a napkin dispenser and place it with the food **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7.) Repeat steps 2 through 5 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">junk food **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">people eating **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">message **

Tables and Graphs
media type="custom" key="14082620" <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The results were that 3 of the 3 subjects ate unhealthy when the signs were not placed next to the junk food. The <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> mean of the Not Educated - Junk was 100% ate junk food. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The results were that 2 of the 3 subjects ate healthy when the signs were placed next to the junk food. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The mean of the Educated - Junk was 33.3% and the mean of the Educated - Healthy was 66.6%.

Photos
Student's choosing veggies

Student's choosing Junk food

Junk Food

Healthy food

Message

Conclusion
<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The experiment was: Can advertisement change a student's eating habits. The experimenter lay out a tray of Carrots and Celery and a tray of Doughnuts and Cookies and asked the Subjects to choose the Veggies or the Junk food. Subjects chose the junk over the veggies. For the next trial the experimenter put out a sign that says, “Eat Your Veggies” and 2 out of 3 Subjects ate veggies.

Discussion
<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Experiment went very well. The experiment was: Can advertisement change a student's eating habits. This question was answered, the answer was that 2 out of 3 kids chose the veggies when the sign was placed next to the junk food. My hypothesis was incorrect because 66% chose healthy and 33% chose unhealthy when the signs were placed. My original experiment was to see if kids ate more of their lunch when they were told that they will do better in school, but some people were purposely messing it up.

Benefit to Community and/or Science
<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">People who run cafeterias could use my results to get people to eat healthier

Abstract
<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">An experiment was conducted to determine if advertising can change a student's eating habits. It was was hypothesized that the subjects will not see the sign and will take the junk food even if they know it is unhealthy. Trials were conducted where the experimenter lay out a tray of Carrots and Celery and a tray of Doughnuts and Cookies and asked the Subjects to choose the Veggies or the Junk food. All subjects chose the junk over the veggies. For the next trial the experimenter put out a sign that said, “Eat Your Veggies” and 2 out of 3 Subjects ate veggies. The hypothesis was not supported by the results.