WELCOME!
this blog was created as part of a statistics project.
it captures some of what we did in finding out
more about the work of
Da Vinci.
interested to discover more?
do navigate using the tabs on the right!
cheers.
The Researchers.
Juliana (Group Leader)
Eileen (Analyst)
Eunice (Blog Editor)
Samantha (Blog Editor)
TingShu (Data Collector)
Violet (Data Collector)
The mighty group!
We are Occupational Therapy Students from Nanyang Polytechnic doing up a project for Statistics module.
Assigned to choose a topic of our choice, we decided to discover more about Da Vinci's theory of his Vitruvian man drawing.
Thus we embark on an exciting journey using statistical approach. Do enjoy our blog! (:
6 - Conclusion.
Conclusion:
There is a positive correlation between a person’s height and wingspan. From these results, we can conclude that the measurement of the wingspan can be used as an alternative to the measurement of a person’s height.
Reflections:
Feelings:
Our group was quite curious and at the same time excited to find out if Da Vinci's work still holds in this era. We were initially amused with this thoery of length of wingspan=height because it seems pretty impossible to be true. We stretched our hands as horizontally as we can and were all thinking ‘Am I this short??’. Hence, we started our reseach on it and experienced a lot of fun during the process of the data collection. During the data collection, few subjects showed extreme results like great discrepancies between their heights and their wing spans. Hence, the data collectors were rather amused by such readings.
We enjoyed the whole process from brainstorming our ideas, to implementing them and finally coming up with this blog to show everyone our masterpiece! (: The assignment allows us to explore the application of our Statistics knowledge. We pretty much had a great time doing this project and were glad that we managed to sow results that help feed those curious little minds of ours and came to a conclusion that, yes, Da Vinci’s theory stands after all!
Improvements and limitations:
To measure the wingspan of each subject, the subject had to stretch his/her arms out as horizontally as possible. We did not use any instruments to make sure each arm was aligned with the other; it was done by estimation. Thus, there is a possibility that the wingspan was measured to be shorter than it should be. An appropriate instrument could have been used to increase the accuracy of our data.
We could have chosen stratified random sampling instead of convenience sampling for a more representative data of the population instead of just taking readings from our classmates.
Some subjects are measured when their arms are not at a perpendicular angle to the body. Hence, the some readings could have discrepancies from the actual results.
