Monday, March 24, 2008

Germ Infection Experiment

1. What we did
2. Results - what expected
3. Make better?

Basically we smeared this glowing "germ" stuff on our hands, then went into three different classrooms and three of us chose one person to shake hands with, then told them to shake hands with a few more people. Our results were surprisingly vague; we basically only found one person with the stuff on her hands still, probably because the tester had really smeared the stuff on her hands, so it showed up much better. I think that if we were to ever do this test again we might try it in a certain room where we would make all the test subjects stay until the test is over to prevent hand-washing, rubbing/wearing off, etc. I also really like the "powdered dollar bill" idea. :)

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