Who's Hot

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Project Hypothesis Testing by Dan Racic and
Andrew Mackin
Who's Hot Who's Not
Leibon vs. Rudel
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Weve all observed our Math 5 professors and
thought to ourselves Wow! These are some
attractive guys!
Haven't you?
Well, ok. But we wondered What does the
average undergraduate female at Dartmouth think
about our very own professors?
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Also, we wanted to pick something that everyone,
especially our Math professors, would actually be

INTERESTED IN!!!!

VS.
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However, our primary GOAL was to determine, once
and for all, the most attractive Math 5
professor!
This information could then be used in whatever
way Professors Leibon and Rudel see fit (i.e.
picking up chicks)
It was a difficult decision, but we decided that
Professor Rudels recent haircut would give him
the edge in this contest.
Our Power Hypothesis was that P70
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We decided to test an equal number of females
from each class, aiming for a total of thirty or
more. We wanted to use a variety of methods to
select these subjects
We randomly selected a number of people from each
facebook and blitzed them.
We interviewed random people whom we stopped in
Collis and Thayer.
We went door-to-door to ten different dorms
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We looked up people in the freshman year Green
Books from the last four years, and we also
asked random people. This is the blitz we sent
out Subject Important PLEASE READ! hi! you
have been selected at random as one of 12
candidates in your class for a special survey. me
and my partner are doing a survey for math class
and we need your help. all you have to do is
look at two sets of pictures and then answer
three easy questions. easy? easy. the only
requirement is that you do not know
personally professors rudel or leibon from the
math department, or myself or my partner. if you
do know them or are off this term or cant do
the survey, please let us know as soon as you
can. if you can do it, we have received funding
to give you a little something for helping us
out. and we have chocolate for you. and we will
come find you wherever you want usto and
administer this easy, less than 2 minute survey.
blitz back with where you will be (dorm room is
probably easiest) asap if you can do it. thanks,
and hope to see you, mackin dan racic
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Of course, we didnt actually give them any candy
or prizes because we are cheap. Our survey was
put onto a PowerPoint, and we met with a total
of 36 people (we talked to 38, but 2 declined).
We took special care to get an equal division of
years, and avoid sampling errors by running the
test the same exact way each time.
This was the PowerPoint we showed to every
subject.
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Survey
Thank you for participating in this short survey.
You will be shown two series of photographs of
two different adult males in various poses. The
two series will be separated by a brief visual
palate cleanser. You will have a short time to
view each picture and you may not return to any
picture. At the end, you will be asked a few
short questions. Please answer to the best of
your abilities.
Thank you!
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Ready? Heres Series One.
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Ok, that was Series One. Time for a brief
break, Prepare for a palate cleanser
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Now on to Series Two! Ready
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Ok, all done with the pictures. Take a moment
to think about what youve seen. Only a few
more questions..
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Have you ever seen either of these men in person,
or do you know who they are?
Can you tell the difference between these two
men?
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Assuming that you do have a preference for the
looks of one of the males versus the other, did
you prefer the person in the first series of
photographs, or the man in the second?
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Thank you very much for your time and help.
Please let us know if you had any problems with
this survey (i.e. understanding the questions,
technical errors, etc)
The End
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Every person watched that same slide show, and
when we tallied the results . . .
They were really close!!
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We were shocked! Both professors were almost
equally attractive. Or at least they were both
chosen the same number of times.
We had been expecting to get something like this
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Instead, our actual results looked like this
We were forced to accept our Null Hypothesis -
there was less that 1 chance our Power
Hypothesis had been correct!
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After we discovered that people seemed to like
them evenly (Null Hypothesis), we thought perhaps
we could look at class years to draw some
interesting conclusions
2007 2006 2005 2004
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Disappointingly, they were almost equally
preferred along class lines as well.
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So there you have it. Here are some
confounding factors

Though we told them the same things as far as
poses, their poses were different. The
backgrounds for the photos were different. We
had a hard time finding on campus- housed 04s.
So, We may have gotten a really weird sampling
batch of them. We gathered data on and around
Winter Carnival Weekend, and we know for certain
that AT LEAST 5-10 of subjects had been
drinking, and possibly many more had been that
we did not detect.
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Despite these possible sources of error, we feel
our test was accurate. Thank you for your time.
We leave with some quotes From test subjects
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Quotes
Well, I guess he Leibon has a nice smile - 06
The second one because he looked friendlier -
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Can I choose the duck? - a lot of people
Hes such a tragic figure, its like hes
Rudell looking into my soul - drunk 07
I have always been intimated by dark haired men
-05
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Quack!