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Our research question:

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE INTELLIGENCE OF ATHENEUM (TTO) AND
GYMNASIUM (TTO)?

Hypothesis
We thought that there wouldnt be a big difference between the classes. We did think there
would be a small difference but not a really big one, because the students who went to
Atheneum also could choose Gymnasium or TTO in first class.
Literature study

it turned out that smarter people have a more efficient brain, there is a faster communication
between different areas in the brain. Your brain exists of hundreds of different cells and you
intelligence does for a part depend on how fast they communicate.

Intelligence does not only depends on your skills on for example solving things, language
and memory, but also on mental skills. You dont pass an exam if you dont understand the
exercises, or if you cant remember the formulas to solve something.

Man and woman are both intelligent on their own way. Men are in general better in math,
spacial view and women in language and memorizing.
Workplan
This was our workplan:

WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?

We are going to measure the difference in intelligence between Atheneum (TTO) and
Gymnasium (TTO). Then we will also look if you make the test better under time pressure or
music or just nothing

WHAT METHOD WILL WE USE?

We first are going to make a questionnaire. Then we hand it out to second year students and
we let them make this questionnaire. Then we compare the answers and we see if there is a
big difference between the answers of
Atheneum (TTO) and Gymnasium (TTO).

WHAT MEASURING INSTRUMENT?

We are going to use a questionnaire for
the test questions that the people have to
fill in and we use our phone for the time
pressure test and the music test

WHAT WILL BE YOUR TEST

SUBJECTS?
Arithmetic/ Mathematics
Prior knowledge
Dutch

HOW WILL YOU CHOOSE THEM?

Online we will search for math/ arithmetic questions, prior knowledge questions, language
questions and random questions. For every test we will need 15 questions so in total 45
questions. We look for not too hard but also not too easy questions. If we cant find more of
these questions we will put some harder but also some easier questions in the
questionnaire.

WHAT BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS COULD INFLUENCE THE RESULTS?

- If it isnt a white room, with posters or texts for example
- Music
- Time limits
WHAT PROCEDURE WILL YOU USE?
We are going to sit in a room with our test subjects
WHAT INFORMATION WILL YOU COLLECT?
Who is smarter than others in the second grade on Het College Weert. We are gonna test
Gymnasium and Atheneum and Gymnasium and Atheneum TTO.

HOW ARE YOU GOING TO ANALYZE THE INFORMATION?

We are going to put everything in a excel file for example

Free Time Music

Person 1 13 of 15 9 of 15 14 of 15

Person 2 8 of 15 6 of 15 10 of 15

Person 3 11 of 15 10 of 15 8 of 15

Person 4 6 of 15 5 of 15 8 of 15
Experiment
So as you already know we wanted to use 4 different
classes. Out of these classes we used 3 girls and 3
boys. All second year VWO. They were 12 to 14
years old.

We gave them 3 tests:

1 with nothing (all the time they want)
1 with time (3 min.)
and 1 with music (unstoppable much music)

The tests with music and time contained 12

questions
and with nothing 13 questions.

They had 3 subjects: Arithmetic, language skills and random questions.

P.S. we did the experiment in Dutch because not everyone was TTO student.
With nothing

1 Wat hebben Santa Maria, Nina en Pinta gemeen?

A Het zijn kerstengelen
B Het zijn alle drie namen van de schepen van Christopher Columbus
C Het zijn alle drie kerken

2 Waar staat D.C. voor in Washington D.C.?

.

3 Waar staat FTP voor in de computer en internetwereld?

.

4 Vul aan: 25, 8, 24.

..

5 Vul in

6 Hoe wordt een middagdutje in Spanje genoemd?

.

7 Wat betekent de afkorting IQ?

..

8 Waar staan de letters M voor in M&Ms?

..

9 Hoelang is een Olympisch zwembad? (Je mag er 5 naast zitten)

10 Welk land produceert na Nederland de meeste drop?

.

11 Hoeveel snaren heeft een Mandoline? (kleine spastische gitaar)



12 Wat is de hoofdstad van Finland?

...

13 Wat is fout? : Wat is de Hoofdstad van Duitsland? (ook antwoord geven)

Time

1 Volgens een oud gezegde leiden alle wegen tot een hoofdstad, welke?
.

2 Voor wat is Phasmaphobia de vrees?

A Spoken
B Vlees
C Duisternis
D Haren

3 Wat is de naam van de munt die in Polen wordt gebruikt?

A Lek
B Real
C Zloty
D Yen

4 Waarom zijn er 13 strepen op de Amerikaanse vlag?

5 Welk gebergte heeft als naam bij de vertaling de woonplaats van sneeuw?
...

6 Welke Europese Koningin was reeds een weduwe op de leeftijd van 18 (uit welk land) ?
A Frankrijk
B Scotland
C Itali
D Zweden
7 Hoeveel driehoeken zie je?

8. 7,7 + 3,07 =

9 Waar staan de breuken in de volgorde van groot naar klein?

A
B
C
D

10 196:7=
..

11 6 x 76 =
.

12 Waarmee verander je zenders op de televisie?

A Afstandsbediening
B Afstandbediening
C Afstand - Bediening
D Afstand Bediening
Music

1 Als je je op alle planeten in ons zonnesysteem kon bevinden, welk zou het heetst zijn?
...

2 Wat is de gemeenschappelijke achternaam in Engeland en de VS?

A Jones
B Mc Carly
C Jonathan
D Smith

3 Wat was het eerste Europees land dat bankbiljetten gebruikte?

A Zweden
B Finland
C Noorwegen
D Denemarken

4 Welke kleur had Coca-Cola oorspronkelijk?

...

5 Van welke steen werd de Taj Mahal gebouwd?

..

6 Welk Europees land is de grootste consument van bier?

...

7 -8 + 2a x 3a - 6a (2a + 1)

8 Los op: 2 (x-3) = 3 (2x + 10)

..

9 Waar of niet waar?

1,773 > 1,77

10 Antonio fietst met zijn vader naar zijn opa in Itali. De afstand is 1800 km. Elke dag
fietsen ze 75 km. Hoeveel dagen doen Antonio en zijn vader over de fietstocht naar Itali?
..
11 Vul aan: 25, 8, 24.
.

12 Wat is fout aan deze zin? : Ik irriteer me aan Sophie.

..
Results

Man/Woman Class Normal Time Music Total

1 Woman A2C 4 out of 13 6 out of 12 6 out of 12 16 out of 37

2 Woman A2C 4 out of 13 5 out of 12 7 out of 12 16 out of 37

3 Woman A2C 6 out of 13 3 out of 12 8 out of 12 17 out of 37

4 Man A2C 4 out of 13 5 out of 12 6 out of 12 15 out of 37

5 Man A2C 5 out of 13 8 out of 12 5 out of 12 18 out of 37

6 Man A2C 3 out of 13 6 out of 12 7 out of 12 16 out of 37

7 Woman A2F 5 out of 13 4 out of 12 4 out of 12 13 out of 37

8 Woman A2F 4 out of 13 5 out of 12 6 out of 12 15 out of 37

9 Woman A2F 5 out of 13 4 out of 12 4 out of 12 13 out of 37

1
0 Man A2G 4 out of 13 5 out of 12 5 out of 12 14 out of 37

1
1 Man A2G 3 out of 13 6 out of 12 6 out of 12 15 out of 37

1
2 Man A2G 5 out of 13 6 out of 12 4 out of 12 15 out of 37

1
3 Woman G2A 2 out of 13 3 out of 12 6 out of 12 11 out of 37

1
4 Woman G2A 5 out of 13 9 out of 12 5 out of 12 19 out of 37

1
5 Woman G2A 2 out of 13 6 out of 12 5 out of 12 13 out of 37

1
6 Man G2A 3 out of 13 6 out of 12 5 out of 12 14 out of 37

1
7 Man G2A 5 out of 13 3 out of 12 3 out of 12 11 out of 37

1
8 Man G2A 6 out of 13 7 out of 12 4 out of 12 17 out of 37

1
9 Woman G2B 8 out of 13 6 out of 12 7 out of 12 21 out of 37

2
0 Woman G2B 7 out of 13 8 out of 12 8 out of 12 23 out of 37
 2
1 Woman G2B 4 out of 13 5 out of 12 8 out of 12 17 out of 37

2
2 Man G2B 4 out of 13 7 out of 12 6 out of 12 17 out of 37

2
3 Man G2B 5 out of 13 6 out of 12 8 out of 12 19 out of 37

2
4 Man G2B 5 out of 13 7 out of 12 3 out of 12 15 out of 37

We saw that if you count everything together G2B scored the highest. G2B scored 61 points
with the girls and the boys scored 51 points. A2C was second. They scored 49 points with
the girls and also 49 with the boys. We did see that everyone made the test better with
music. After all everyone made the test really bad. There was one person who even had 2
questions out of 13 correct so that is really low.
Discussion
We did have good teamwork, we
said everybody makes and then
its okay.
But with the music we didnt use the
same music 3 times so that could
be something we could do better

End
We had a lot of fun doing this
project, also because our teamwork
was really good. The only thing we
could do better is work faster.

Cis Leveau
Sophie Daudey
Lotte Segers G2B