Abstract:
In my experiment I grew twenty seeds of Rye Grass in two different milk jugs that were cut in half. The seeds were watered every three days. I placed jug A in my home that is inhabited by four males and I placed jug B in another house that is inhabited by four females. Each jug was waterded the same. Jug B recieved more attention by the females than did jug A with the males. I expected to find that the grass would grow higher with more interaction. However the differance in height was not very significant.
Growing Rye Grass where it is interacted with more will increase the height of the grass.
In my experiment I grew twenty TB-2083 Rye Grass seeds from Agway, Inc., Syracuse New York. I grew two sets of tweny seeds in two half gallon milk jugs. One was labeled jug A and the other jug B. Each of the groups of seeds were watered every two days. Jug A was placed in a home inhabited by four males, who had very little contact with the Rye Grass. Jug B was placed in a home inhabited by four females who had a lot of contact with the Rye Grass. The females talked to and played the radio for jug B. Jug A was left alone to sit by itself.
For this experiment I used the Mann-Whitney U to determine that I was to fail to reject the null hypothesis. My U obtained was 130 and my U critical was 127. I failed to reject the null hypothesis due to the U obtained being smaller than the U critical.
I found that in my experiment , interaction with the Rye Grass increased the height of the grass but not very significantly. This goes along with my hypothesis that interacting with the Rye Grass will increase the height of the grass. The importance of my findings are not very significant . There could have been other causes for the Rye Grass to grow higher in jug B than in jug A. There could have been some extroneous variables such as temperature difference, more or less lighting, and better seeds in jug B than jug A.