Draft 3: The Moon Over Miami: How The Lunar Cycle Affects The Moods Of MU Students

This topic submitted by Brandon Black, Julie Housiaux, Brandy McQueary, Micah Sherman (BBlack99@hotmail.com) at 4:25 pm on 9/30/99. Additions were last made on Wednesday, August 9, 2000. Section: Nicholson

Intro: The purpose of this lab is to determine the corilation between the lunar cycle and its affect on the moods of Miami University students. We think that there will be a direct link between the lunar phases and the general moods of Miami students. Though internet sources we have assertained that some people believe that a direct corilation between the moon cycles and either moods or health does in fact exist. Research has been done to relate human activity to tidal shifts, however, we have not, up to this point conducted such reasearch ourselves. The outcome of this experiment may show that there are more than internal factors conducting ones mood.

Materials/Methods: Other than a survey that we wrote (see below), we do not have any other materials. At the end of our research, we will have interviewed 1200 subjects, ranging in age, graduating class, and gender. The method that we will be following is straight forward. Every day for a complete lunar cycle, the four of us will interview 10 people (40 people per day) in various locations throughout the campus between 6pm and 9pm. We chose these hours because it is a convenient time for our team and because most people are aware of thier moods by that time. We will simultainiously be surveying ourselves, but keeping that data seperate from the other data. We will also interview our class, so they can critique our survey and understand our project. Once we complied the data we will look for patterns and make conclusions.
Survey:
What year are you at Miami? (please circle one)
1 2 3 4 5+ Grad

What is your major?

What is your age?

What is your birthdate?

What is your gender? (please circle one)
Male Female

Please rate the quality of your last 24 hours. (please circle one) One being extreamly poor and ten being excellent.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Which mood best describe your mood of the past 24 hours?
Positive Negative
lovestruck heartbroken
wild lethatgic
excited sad
warm&fuzzy angry
Timeline: October 20--begin research
November 20--reasearch ends
**Throughout that month we will also be doing reseach
about our topic.**
Early December--complete lab



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