Science+Experiment

=Scientific Method Template = Physical appearance and personal approachability
 * Topic:**

Does a person's appearance affect how many people start conversations with them?
 * Question:**

According to the website http://www.improve.com/personal-appearance.php, when you meet someone, the first thing people notice is how you look on the outside. They know nothing about you but the way you look. They don't know your personality, don't care how nice you are. They only see your armor, your shell, your outside appearance. When people see you, they think they know you. They assume they know what you're all about, just by the way you look, even if they've got it all wrong.
 * Background Information:**

According to the website http://www.publicspeakingexpert.co.uk/ImportanceOfPersonalAppearance.html, more than ten judgments are made about how you look in one minute. If you have many tattoos and hair and piercings covering your face, people may find you frightening, just because they aren't used to you, or vice versa. People say to take pride in the way we look, but what if we aren't all there that day, or we had a bad morning, or we woke up late? What then? Should people judge us for our bad taste, our bad hair days, or our nice clothes all being in the washer? //Do// they?

According to the website http://artofmanliness.com/2008/10/30/mens-fashion-well-dressed/, when we think we're dressed really "cool" or fashionable, we get into a different state of mind, as well. If we're dressed just about in rags, we may feel a little depressed, and come off not as good as we'd like, compared to if we're dressed in our new couture dress that we got over the weekend, we may carry ourselves more confidently, and people will most likely see us as better or a person we'd rather be around.

http://www.improve.com/personal-appearance.php http://www.publicspeakingexpert.co.uk/ImportanceOfPersonalAppearance.html http://artofmanliness.com/2008/10/30/mens-fashion-well-dressed/

If I dress like I just woke up on one day, in designer clothes another day, and average on the last day, then on the day I dress like I just woke up, people will be less likely to start a conversation with me, whereas on the day I dress in designer clothes, more people will start a conversation with me, and on the day I dress average, everyone will treat me just the same as usual.
 * Hypothesis:**


 * Procedure:**
 * 1) Collect your materials (See below).
 * 2) Dress normally on the first day in a sweatshirt, jeans, and tennis shoes, and do your hair how you normally do it.
 * 3) Tally how many people start conversations with you and record your results.
 * 4) On the second day, wear pajamas and leave hair in the bedhead you had when you woke up, and wear slippers.
 * 5) Tally how many people start conversations with you on the second day and record your results.
 * 6) On the last day, dress in designer clothes, do your hair nicely, and wear nice shoes.
 * 7) Tally how many people start conversations with you on the last day and record results.
 * 8) Go over your collected data results, and determine whether your hypothesis was right or wrong.


 * Materials:**
 * Designer clothes
 * Hair ties
 * Sweatshirt
 * Makeup
 * Hair pins
 * Tennis shoes
 * Pajamas
 * Hairspray
 * Jeans
 * Slippers

Do the experiment.
 * Experiment:**

From the data of the graph above, I learned that on Day 1, the least people started conversations with me, on day 2, a few more people started conversations with me, and on the last day, the most people started conversations with me. The data in the graph shows that when I dress normally, more people start conversations with me, but also shows that when I dress much differently than usual, less people start conversations with me. This experiment can show people that people are more comfortable starting conversations with people that dress the way that they are used to.
 * Data/Results:**
 * **Day 1 (Designer)** || 16 conversations ||
 * **Day 2 (Just woke up)** || 19 conversations ||
 * **Day 3 (Normal)** || 22 conversations ||
 * __**End Results**__ ||  ||

My hypothesis was if I dress like I just woke up on one day, in designer clothes another day, and average on the last day, then on the day I dress like I just woke up, people will be less likely to start a conversation with me, whereas on the day I dress in designer clothes, more people will start a conversation with me, and on the day I dress average, everyone will treat me just the same as usual. My hypothesis was wrong. My hypothesis was wrong because on the day I wore designer clothes, the least people talked to me, and the day I wore things I normally wear, the most people talk to me. This is because more people were comfortable with me when I dressed like I usually do, and they were almost just as comfortable starting conversations with me on the day I dressed like I just woke up because I wasn't dressed any better than anyone else. Next time, I would do this experiment differently because I was working around people I know, and I think if I used different people, the people would react differently. People know me already, so they judge me differently than they would judge others.
 * Conclusion:**