Jacob Stewart, Ben Thompson, & Nate Pudlo

Procedure:

• Gather the materials you will need: a blindfold, noise cancelling headphones, a full roll of

blue tape, black sharpies, at least ten different colored markers, 2 tape measurers, and

something to record distances (pen and paper, your notes app on your phone, etc.)

• Set up experiment:

o Use the blue tape and stick it to the ground at one end of the hallway on the right

side with enough room to the right of the tape for someone to be able to stand

there. Slowly drag it out in a long straight line past three or four lines of lockers,

sticking the tape on the ground as you go.

o Then, make a second line exactly the same as the first line, but on the left side of

the hallway. Make sure there is a yard between the two lines, and that there is

enough space on the left side of this tape.

o After this, have two people take the tape measurers, and two people hold the ends

of the tape measurer at the start of the blue lines. The people with the tape

measurers will walk straight down the two blue lines holding the tape measurer as

close as they can to the ground, and just to the side of the blue tape.

o When the two people reach the end of the blue tape, they will hold the measurers

down to the side of the tape, and other people with sharpies will come through

and write down the distances on the tape to identify the location. They can use

feet, marking the inches in between.

 • Now that the experiment is ready, choose someone to walk be the first trial.

• Blindfold them, place the noise cancelling headphones on them, and position them at the

start.

• Have another person stand behind them at the starting point. They will take off their

shoes to ensure silence. They will tap the person on the shoulder to signal that they can

start walking. The person will walk behind the trial participant, holding a colored marker

that will be used to mark where the person walks outside the lines. The person will follow

the participant and when the participant steps almost fully outside of between the two

lines, the person will put their hand on the participants shoulder, signaling the participant

to stop where they are and not move their feet so that the person can put a line on the tape

with a marker. They will tell the others what the distance was, and those people will write

that down.

• That participant will attempt it two more time, following the same steps, then everyone

will repeat this process with at least 5 more participants and each time a new person

participates change to a different colored marker to mark where they walk outside of the

lines.

Calculations:

Equations:
1. Sample mean- average
2. Sample Standard Deviation (s)- on your calculator
• Go under stat
• Hit edit
• After you put the information in the list, hit stats again
• Scroll over to calc
 • Hit 1- var stats
• Hit calculate
• Them find the sample standard deviation
3. Critical Value-invT
• df-1
4. Margin of Error- tc(s/square root of n)
5. Confidence Interval- (ñ-E) (ñ+E)

Answers:
1. Sample mean: 188.8833333
2. Sample Standard Deviation- 92.55417178
3. Critical Value (tc)- 2.04522961
4. Margin of Error- 34.56029518
5. Confidence interval: (154.3230, 223.44360)

Conclusion:

We found that humans can walk 188.88 inches, or almost 16 feet, while blindfolded. This

is based off the thirty people that were tested. This is a good number of people to use because it

gave us a wide range of distances walked by different people. If we could do this experiment

again we would like to do it in a more open space, so it would give the subjects more time to

potentially correct the direction they were going. We would also like to test more than thirty

people to get a more accurate distance as to how far you could walk.