When try to memorize stuf

Intense music or nah.

We are interested in how intense music will afect peoples shortterm memory. We thought that try to memorize while you are listening
to really intense music would lower peoples short-term memory
compare to no music. To test this, we conducted an experiment to test
whether people remember less with intense music or with out music.
They would be watching a video of diferent pictures with diferent
colors and meaning. Then we would ask all the volunteers to answer
10 questions based on the video they just watched. We used the TCS
student community and sampled all the random volunteers. Then we
throw coins to decide whether they get to listen to the intense music to
memorize or with out the intense music. The two diferent groups
would watch the same video.
Our response variable is the amount of question that the
volunteers would answer correctly with intense music and without any
music. The explanatory variable is the type of treatment they get, with
two treatments: memorize with intense music and with out music.
Question: Are people less able to remember information with
intense music or without music.
Our parameter of interest is Trinity College School in Port Hope,
Ontario.
Null hypotheses: The intense music will have no efect on
peoples memory ability.
Ho : ui un =0 where Ui =intense musice and Un =no music
Alternative: Intense music will have efect on peoples memory
ability.
Ha: Ui Un > 0

We are going to test peoples memory and see if intense

music will lower peoples ability to memory the information from
the video and answer the question correctly. We have a group of
50 TCS volunteers with full hearing ability, who can all speak and
understand English well enough, to answer the questions and
understand the instruction. We will throw coins to decide weather
they get to listen to the intense music while they watch the video
or not. Note that the video it self have no background music.
Our method of data collection uses random assignment to
assign the students to treatments. I throw coins for them to
decide which treatment they will get. I will throw the coin myself
using the same way every time. And all the volunteers will be
using the same room at the same time during lunch everyday. As
it is in the music practice room, therefore, the temperature and
lighting will remain the same every time we use it.
We eliminate bias by using the same video and music for
everyone. The music will be the same length and same quality,
same as the video. We asked each volunteer the same questions
and phrased the directions the same way. Then we let the
volunteer watch the video one time. We tried to make it the
exact same for each volunteer by doing it in the same music
practice room and by having the same person record he data
versus giving the instructions. We will give them the same paper
print with the same questions and by using the same pencil. On

the same chair and desk with the same limited amount of time.
So there would be no bias in anyway.
I will show them a list of word and they will try to
memorize all of them and try to write it out. There are 10 words, so the
scale will be out of 10.
Here is what the word looks like.

link to intense music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x47NYUbtYb0

with intense mucis

8
7
6
5

with intense mucis

4
3
2
1
0
1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

without the musc

7
6
5
without the musc

4
3
2
1
0
1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

both histograms of words memorized are unimodal and roughly

symmetric.
I dont see any outlier on both graphs. The center of without intense
music is around 7-8 and the center with intense music is around 5-6.
The standard deviation of the graph without intense music is greater
than the one with intense music.

Summary statistics for without intense music

Minimum
Q1
Median
Q3
Maximum
Mean
SD
Sample size

4
6
8
10
10
8.56
2.368
25

Summary statistics for with intense music

Minimum
Q1
Median
Q3
Maximum
Mean
SD
Sample size

3
4
6
7
10
6.6
1.768
25

From the summary statistics, the mean of with intense is lower than
without the music. There is a really high variability on the with intense
music chart.

Data analysis
I did two sample t test for means at 95% confidence to
determine if there was a significant diference in with intense music
and without intense music.
I checked the conditions, nomal, independent and random. The people
were randomly assigned treatments. For independence, I assumed that
each person was independent of another. For normality, I used 25
person sample size for each memory test.
t=2.369
Degree of freedom=52.735

P-value = 0.00784

Conclusion
Since the p-value is less than significance level of 0.05, we
can reject the null hypothesis and conclude that the mean rating of
memory for without intense music was significantly higher than the
mean rating for with intense music. Thus, with intense music will lower
your memory ability.