looking for suggestions for a statistics project...

[Jay59express]

Hello everyone,
I have a group statistics project that just got underway, and we are looking for an interesting project to do. We are looking for something that
can hopefully give results that follow a normal distribution.
One idea that I had was measuring tire pressures on a random sample of cars, and expressing it as a percent inflation (observed inflation/recommended inflation x 100%).
Anyone else have any ideas that would be fairly simple to do, and would result in a decent normal (also could be transformed to become normal, so this isnt a HUGE issue) distribution?
Thanks!

 

[jmcoreymv]

I calculated a sample of different types of marshmallows in Lucky Charms. I got an A and food to eat after the project.

 

[b0mbrman]

People's GPA, height, weight

 

[Platypus]

How about the March Madness?
That is a great stat project.


IE pools..

 

[Capn]

we bought white bread and wheat bread, measured the bread (lengthxwidthxheight) and put a statics book on top it and measured the deflection. From there we calculated the effective modulus of elasticity of the bread (doesn't really work since the deformation of the bread was plastic not elastic but who cares). Got an A, never looked back, what's statistics again?

 

[heartsurgeon]

forget tire pressures - to messy, you have to bend over

measure peoples' heart rate (pulse) you just have to feel their pulse at the wrist level (get your school nurse to shopw you how if you don't know)

gives you a legit reason to walk up to girls (or guys) and ask them if you can hold their hand for a scientific project! (nice social ice breaker eh?)

 

[Jay59express]

Thanks for the replies guys!
I would never be able to dream some of these ideas up