Hypothesis: Girls need less guesses than boys
to match some hidden pairs of cards
The modal group for boys was larger than that
for girls
More than half of the boys took between 9 and
12 guesses
The more guesses a person took the longer it
took them to complete the task
There are 21 females
There are 30 males
Nobody took between 15 and 18 guesses
The range for the males is larger than the range
for the girls
The mean for the girls is about 10 guesses
The mean for the boys is about 9 guesses
Pupils were given 16 cards face down and asked
to turn over two at a time, if they were the same
they were removed if not they were turned back
over
Controlled Assessment 3
MemoryTest
guesses
MemoryTest
time
7
14
19
8
6
11
9
10
8
7
8
8
11
12
11
8
8
9
6
11
9
6
6
5
8
7
10
11
12
9
9
4
20
18
10
10
11
7
13
10
6
10
6
11
4
0
10
9
9
21
28
48
54
36
35
36
37
47
34
34
34
32
41
36
37
38
56
43
26
42
38
31
33
24
33
26
37
40
36
31
33
31
56
63
38
31
36
36
36
44
31
36
36
44
26
0
33
27
33
56
Controlled Assessment 3
Number of
guesses
3≤g<6
6≤g<9
9≤g<12
12≤g<15
15≤g<18
18≤g<21
21≤g<24
Total
Number of guesses
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
Total
Controlled Assessment 3
Female
0
10
8
2
0
1
0
21
Female
0
0
0
0
0
2
2
6
3
1
4
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
21
Male
3
7
13
2
0
2
1
28
Male
0
0
0
2
1
4
2
1
4
6
3
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
1
28
Bar chart to show the number of guesses taken
14
12
Frequency
10
8
Female
Male
6
4
2
0
3≤g<6
6≤g<9
9≤g<12
12≤g<15
15≤g<18
18≤g<21
21≤g<24
Number of guesses
Scattergraph to show memory test results and the time spent on the test
25
Number of guesses
20
15
10
5
0
0
10
20
30
40
Time taken (seconds)
Controlled Assessment 3
50
60
70
Number of Guesses for Males
3≤g<6
6≤g<9
9≤g<12
12≤g<15
15≤g<18
18≤g<21
21≤g<24
Number of Guesses for Females
3≤g<6
6≤g<9
9≤g<12
12≤g<15
15≤g<18
18≤g<21
21≤g<24
Controlled Assessment 3