Can Music Affect The
Way You Play A Sport
Elijah Clausell
Mr.Leingang
Per 5
Question
How dose a certain song “Let “I Put
ON” affect the way a person plays a
sport?
Hypothesis
As I play the song I Put On then it
should change the way a person
plays a sport because the player
will mostly focus on the song more
than the sport.
Abstract
The purpose of my project is to see if music can affect
the way a person plays a sport. What I believed what
was going to happen was that the music was going to
affect the player. After collecting my data I have proved
that music can and dose affect the way a person plays a
sport. Some minor errors that may have interrupted my
data was the lack of knowing how to take a picture, I
kept on messing up with the photos. What I have
learned after completing this project is music really
affect the person playing type, because at first I didn’t
know it could.
Varieables
MV: person playing sport
RV: type of sport
CV: song being played, type of ball
Procedure
1.Gather players
2. Get sport utensils
3. Turn on song let it rock
4. Have player take 10 shots/ 20 passes
5. Keep same type of ball for each player
6.Switch players as they finish their 10 shots/ 20 passes
7.Only two sports should be played basketball football
8.Record all data collected
9.Repeat steps 1-8
Materials
1. 1/3 section cardboard
2. 1 camera
3. 1basketball and football
4. 4 people
5. 1 basketball court
6. A object which plays
7. Colored paper brown, white, orange,
black
Conclusion
I thought that if we play two sports
basketball/football with music on then it would
affect the players playing type. My results showed
that playing with music on effected the players
astributes, and without music the results came out
to what you would expect. I can prove this because
the lowest average for playing with music was
10%, and with music with the music off 25%. The
highest average with music was 45% , and highest
average without music 90%. Therefore I proved my
hypothesis right because the music did effect th
players playing style.
Backround
Usually when a person is playing a sport with music on
they tend to forget about the sport which they are
playing and sing along with song. As they do this it tends
to decrease their playing abilities and makes them kind
of bad at the sport. This one of the main reasons people
lose focus because they try to play with music on.
When a person attempts to play a sport with music
they tend to lose figure, it’s like playing with a broken
body part. People brick shots make the ugliest passes
and they still don’t seem to learn it’s the music affected
them. The two type of music that exspially effects
people is rock and rap because rock is so loud and rap
you tend too rap with.
Data Table W/Music
Players
Shots made (10
shots)
Accurate passes (10 Total percentile
passes)
Paris
2/10 30%
5/10 50%
35%
Keon
3/10 30%
3/10 30%
30%
Rae’kwon
2/10 20%
0/10 0%
10%
Elijah
2/10 20%
7/10 70%
45%
Data Table Without Music
Players
Shots made ( 10
shots)
Accurate passes (10 Total percentile
passes)
Paris
8/10 80 %
10/10 100%
90%
Elijah
6/10 60%
8/10 80%
70%
Keon
4/10 40%
6/10%
50%
Rae’kwon
2/10 20%
3/10 30%
25%