1. What is your hypothesis?
If perfection is beauty, the most beautiful past Miss America's will have symmetrical features in their faces.
2. Identify the dependent (produced), independent (manipulated) and control variables in your hypothesis.
Dependent: beautiful Miss Americas
Independent: symmetric feature
Cotroled variables are the people i will be asking to rate the women biased on their beauty.
3. What is the connection between your science fair project and your senior project EQ?
My essential question is about the positive effect young women get when participating in these pageants. Young women receive things like interview skills, self confidence, posture, and other things of that nature. My science project will help me find out if winning the pageant is about more than just the things it teaches you, if it is, in fact, about a women's beauty.
4. How will you perform the experiment? Include the equipment you plan on using.
First, I will go to a public place, such as the mall or the park, and ask random participants to rate pictures of the past 50 Miss Americas, on a scale of 1-5. 5 being the most beautiful and 1 being the least. Then, i will use the points for preference method of ranking vote to find the top rated pictures. Once i have 1/3 of the top rated pictures, I will see if there are any symmetrical features to their faces. If my hypothesis is correct, the highest rated picture over all will be a symmetrical face.
5. Which category will your project be listed under? (For a full list of categories, go to the iPoly Physics webpage, then to the Science Fair tab.)
Behavior Science
