Problem: Which genre of music increases your heart rate the most?

By: Katelyn ShaulisBellwood-Antis High School

9th Grade

Hypothesis: Rock music will increase your heart rate the most.

“The music that affects you the most is calm music like instrumental or fast music like rock or techno.”http://healthmad.com/health/does-music-affect-your-heartbeat/#ixzz1FaZNzAxH

Experimental Procedure

Step one: Test all 6 student’s heart rates Step two: Have Male “A“ and Female “A“ listen

to one minute of the first genre. Step three: Test heart rate immediately Step Four: Repeat steps two and three with

Male “B“ and Female “B“ and then with Male “C“ and Female “C“

Step Five: Repeat step 4 until all genres have been tested

Step Six: Repeat step 5, but listen to no music. Step Seven: When finished, compare data.

Control Group: › Not having students listen to music

Control Variables:› Age of students› Length of music played› No distracting room› Volume of music

Experimental Variable: › Having students listen to music.

Experimental Group:› 6 Genres of Music

Rock Rap Country Classical Electronic Pop

Heart Rate Chart

Male A Female A Male B Female B Male C Female C0

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70

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100

No Music

Rock

Rap

Country

Classical

Electronic

Pop

No music

Rock Rap Country Classical Electronic

Pop

Male A 64 64 64 60 55 68 64

Female A

72 78 79 60 78 65 65

Male B 64 64 68 75 60 78 66

Female B

70 82 80 78 84 84 88

Male C 68 60 76 68 68 64 60

Female C

88 84 68 68 77 68 72

In conclusion my data does not support my Hypothesis that Rock music will increase your heart rate the most› Rock music only increased 2 heart rates.

Rap and Electronic both increased 4 heart rates, causing these two genres to increase your heart rate the most.

If I was to do my project differently I would test each student’s heart rate before I tested each genre, not just at the beginning of the experiment.