Stupid Love Essay

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Statistically females have approximately a 12% higher heart rate than males (Livestrong.com), taking into consideration of this natural differential between the sexes the averages have been calculated by the differences of initial heart rate and final heart rate. By doing so the results are able to correlate accurately against one another, demonstrating the increase/decrease of the participant’s heart rate. However, the results gathered exhibit inconsistency due to the averaging of the beats per minute between the males and females. This is as the anomalous figures of the sample skewed the results, altering the figures to be less/more significant than necessary. Evident in participant 693 whose heart rate decreased of 3 beats in the film excerpt …show more content…

The influence of food eaten, age and sex of the person all affect the heart rate. Since there was no prior calming session before the experiment it is to be expected that the heart rate of the students are higher than their normal resting rate due to just finishing lunch. The understanding of the film excerpts context by each of the participants also alters the heart rate. According to this investigation The Patriot is the justified film excerpt and Crazy, Stupid Love is the non-justified film excerpt. However, for those who have seen both movies their opinion may be contradicting to the investigation. One participant’s heart rate may have not increased because of the understanding of the situation. The extremity of the violence also plays a key role in the results gathered. This is as the two film excerpts of justified and non-justified violence were two levels of violence with one film portraying mild/moderate violence (punching, kicking and so on) to a murderous rampage, with masses of gore (extreme violence). The drastic extremes of the violence interferes with the data collected as it isn’t experimenting exclusively of the heart rate towards justified and non-justified violence, rather less harmful acts of violence verse murder and the heart rate towards those

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