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Diego Lara Ximena Aguilera Biology SL October 28, 2018 Lab Report
Diego Lara Ximena Aguilera Biology SL October 28, 2018 Lab Report
Ximena Aguilera
Biology SL
Lab Report
Intro
We will experimented with one of the many senses human beings have, the sense of
smelling. It consists on testing if the smelling sense sensibility is different on men and
women, we varied different materials for the people we tested on, we made them smell
different things that had very different tones of smell. In the course of the experiment our
experimentation group said that the results would not vary on gender and thought that the
way people perceive different smells. The sense of smelling has one very important organ
the nose, the nose allows different odors to penetrate from the outside and the olfactory
receptors in the nostrils perceive and differentiate various odors. The purpose of this
experiment is to find out if gender applies to smelling capacity and to achieve this we will
be be needing rubbing alcohol, sunscreen, cream and jalapenos. Our hypothesis states that a
person’s gender (Men or Women) is related with how people’s sense of smelling differs.
Methodology
We experimented with men and women, we covered the persons eyes with a piece
of cloth and we approached the different smelling materials for them to try to identify each
one of them, we got results based on how many smells each one of them identified and
guessed it correctly. Our dependent variable in this experiment were the different smells we
used for the people to smell, and our independent variable is the gender of the person that is
smelling the material. We used the same amount of every material for each of the
individuals being tested this with the purpose of making the experiment precise, we used
twelve subjects to experiment with, six were man and six were woman, all of them are
around 17 to 18 years old. We made them smell each material and asked them to make a
guess on what was that they were smelling then we we repeated the process of smelling on
each subject at least twice so the experiment is accurate in result. To find out the sensitivity
each individual we observed the individual’s reaction to the material they were smelling, in
order to achieve this we continued to repeat the experiment several times on different
subjects both man and woman. Some smelling material were stronger than others and many
of the individuals were not able to recognize very common smelling material which told us
that the experiment, we decided to test me to see if the result could be ambiguous or
accurate depending on the individual’s sense of smelling, when the sunscreen smell
approached my nose I was not able to recognize, I found this very curious because
sunscreen is a very common thing I tend to use very often so we said that it depends a lot
on the individual.
Materials
Rubbing Alcohol
VapoRub
Hands Cream
Sunscreen
Coffee
Spoon
Cloth
Pencil
Pen
Notebook
Results
Conclusion
After we finished the experiment we concluded that gender does/ does not play a
role the smelling sense rate of a human being. The experiment was rather accurate because
every individual tested was used the same amount of material for each one of them and we
got results to back up our hypothesis. It is good to say that the experiment was a success