![]() | Project title | Mind over matter in sports![]() ![]() |
Difficulty Level | Middle school | |
Project page |  Click here to view this science project | |
Description | ||
This science project was performed to investigate the effect of mind over matter on an athlete’s performance. The experiment was done to see how pre-conditioning of the mind of an athlete can affect his performance. | ||
Instructions preview | ||
1. For this experiment, the independent variable is the pre-conditioning information given to the runners before the 2nd race, i.e. (a) that the sweetened water will improve their performance, (b) that the water will not affect their performance and (c) that the water will worsen their performance. The dependent variable is the time taken by the athletes to complete the 3 laps. The time taken to complete the 3 laps is measured with a stopwatch. The constants (control variables) are the age of the participants and the distance of each lap. 2. On the 1st day of the experiment, ..... |