Men Vs. Women

Since both of our mean temperatures fell below the mean average for all women (98.25 F) and both our standard deviations are higher, we are not perfect representatives of the female race. However, our information does show that Ariel’s mean is a little less than one standard deviation from the actually mean of women, while Amanda’s is a little more than one standard deviation from the actually mean of women. Although our information doesn’t correlate perfectly, we do show having a colder temperature than your typical male. Since neither one of us is male, we can’t juxtapose our data, but over all we feel that we represent fairly well that women’s temperatures are lower on average.

This data might have been affected by systematic bias or random variation (i.e. where temperature is taken, if anything was eaten before, etc). Therefore, we do believe that by taking more data over a longer period of time we would have more accurate results. This is due to the fact that outliers would have more average data values to be compared to, making them affect our final mean less.

Shoemaker, A. L.(1996). What’s Normal? Temperature, Gender, and Heart Rate. Journal of statistics Education. 4, 2.

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