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Trevor 11/1/11 Ice Cream Lab **Abstract-**This lab seeks to find out if people eat ice cream because they are hungry or just because they want it. Most people eat because of emotions or to get a physical responce like pleasure. We will ask people in the TCA lunch room. I tested students who were from grades 7-12 and in the age group is from 12-18. The result of this experiment was that it was found in this case that people bought ice cream more because they wanted it rather than they were hungry.

//__**Background**__//
====**Purpose-** The purpose of this experiment is to see if people buy ice cream at lunch because they want to or because they are hungry. ====

====**Hypothesis-** I think if you buy ice cream at lunch then you are buying it because you want it because most people buy ice cream as a reward or treat not as a food to fulfill their hunger. ====

====**Research-** Most people eat because of their emotions or physical responce. They are not eating because they need they are eating because they want to. The reason for eating that way could be that they had a bad day and want something to brighten their day. It could also be a person who had a good day and wants to reward themselves. It can also be a person who likes how it feels. They like the taste or the sensation they get eating ice cream or after eating ice cream. These are all filling emotional gaps that people have. ([]) ====

1 Stand next to the counter where the ice cream is being sold in the TCA lunchroom
====2 After someone has purchased the ice cream ask them (people from age 12-18) if they bought it because they wanted it or because they were hungry. ====

3 Record their answer and repeat steps 1-3 for each person. (I did this for 5 days in a row.)
====4 You want to do this as many times as possible without doing the same person twice. I only surveyed 20 with out repeating a person due to the size of the group I tested. ====

Ice Cream Table

 * ====Response ==== || ====Wanted ==== || ====Hungry ==== ||
 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Number of People ==== || ====<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">17 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">3 ==== ||

====<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Conclusion-** My hypothesis was correct. More people wanted ice cream just because they wanted it. Most people were not hungry they just wanted the ice cream to most likely fill a gap. (See research & links for explanation.) This is based off a group of students that are grades 7-12. I saw, when I did this that also there were many people who purchased ice cream on multiple days. I did not ask a certain student more than once so you will see my number are off a group of 20 students. These results were also taken from both male and female students. The males and females were not in equal ratios so that must be taken into account. In closing it appears from the data that people buy ice cream because they want it, for whatever reason, not because they are hungry. This agrees with other studies that have been done in my research (see links in research). My limited data stands shoulder to shoulder with data that has been tested in other places with larger groups of people. ====