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Hormones and Height
- Hormones and Height! Kate Loeser and Samantha Balfe
welcome you to our website on hormones in our food and the effects they have
on our height.
- Added hormones are becoming more and more of a health
concern as medical research is finding they alter our height, induce earlier
puberty, and increase our risk of getting serious illnesses like cancer.
- The main focus of our study is to answer our question:
Are hormones making teens shorter?
- For this study, we got a random sample from the students
in North Olmsted High School. We used a random number generator to
obtain our random sample. We then went to their 6/7th period
classrooms to measure their heights in inches, using a measuring tape.
- We went online and used different search engines to find
the average heights of people during the years 1948-1950. We then
compared that average height to the average height of the data we collected.
- We entered our data into mini-tab and did a basic
statistics test to get the descriptive statistics. We also created a
boxplot of height in inches and a summary graph for their height in inches.
- We failed to reject the null hypothesis at the 0.05 level
of significance since our p-value was greater than alpha. Therefore,
we do not have sufficient evidence to say that people are now shorter than
58 to 60 years ago.
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