Blood Pressure with music

Big Question

• Will different kinds of music affect someone’s blood pressure?

Hypothesis

• I think the Jazz and country music will make your blood pressure lower and the rock and rap will make your blood pressure higher.

Experiment

• Blood pressure cuff• 4 people: Mom, Dad, Elizabeth (sister), and

Karen Frost (neighbor)• MP3 player and head phones• Music loaded onto MP3 player:• Jazz• Country• Rock• Rap • Paper and pencil for recording results

Procedures

• Step 1: Place each song onto my mp3 player in the order for the person to hear them

• Step 2: Take resting blood pressure before listening to first song

• Step 3: Begin playing 1st song and take blood pressure immediately after song is finished and record the blood pressure reading

• Step 4: Repeat step 3 for each song, recording the blood pressure after each song.

• Step 5: Wait 5 minutes after finished listening to all songs and take another resting blood pressure

Data

Blood Pressure Results from Different Music Types

        Music Type

Person's Name   Resting B.P. Jazz Country Rock Rap

Blood Pressure

OverUnde

r OverUnde

r OverUnde

r OverUnde

r OverUnde

r

Rob Posavad 122 78 120 76 121 75 128 77 132 81

Heidi Posavad 120 80 122 80 122 78 126 82 134 85

Elizabeth Posavad

114 68120 71 117 69 124 72 124 73

Karen Frost 126 83 120 78 124 80 120 77 131 84

                     

Analysis

• a. Yes, my data did test my hypothesis. • b. I know this because on average the data

showed that the peoples blood pressure increased with the fast beat of the Rock and Rap music and stayed close to their resting blood pressure or went down with the Jazz and Country music. It also showed that people who like different music styles are affected differently by the various music types.

Conclusion • 6. Conclusion• a. It was partially correct, because on average the blood pressures

reacted as I expected. However, in my hypothesis I did not take into affect personal likes and dislikes in music taste and I think that makes a big different in the actual results.

• b. I would ask the person what type of music they like before doing the tests and test several people that like different types of music. I think this will help provide results that better represent actual reactions to the different music types. I would also control the surrounding where the tests are done better. I think the tests need to all be done in a room that has no other distractions that can affect the blood pressure.

• c. How much would different environments effect the persons blood pressure? Would it provide more consistent results if the tests were given in a completely dark room?

References

• http://www.blurtit.com/q423985.html• http://www.selah.k12.wa.us/soar/sciproj99/

AshleySciProj.html• http://wiki.answers.com/Q/

What_effect_does_music_have_on_blood_pressure

• http://www.ehow.com/about_5066421_musics-effect-blood-pressure.html

• http://spot.colorado.edu/~basey/jthorne.html