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Do M&Ms affect batting

average?
An example of Quantitative Research Methods

Albert Furlow, Kaye Robinson, Michelle Royal
In 1985, Mars Candies, producers of M&Ms developed this urban legend:
What?
What is your topic? I want to understand how M&Ms affect batting average.



Why? At a 3A HS campus, baseball players are shared with all
What is significant about it? the other spring sports. If M&Ms will help their hitting
without having to increase practice time, the school will have
a better record, then receive a bigger budget, and then be
able to recruit higher-quality student-athletes.



How?
How do you want to do it? I am going to have an all-star team of doctoral student
athletes eat M&Ms according to the urban legend before
they go up to bat and analyze their batting average, on-
base percentage and box scores for possible correlation.
Participants and
Permissions:
Julie White
Dr. zturgut
Florinda Cardenas
Steven Montemayor
Teresa Pena-Rodriguez
Leah Quiroz
Diana Ramirez
Michelle Royal Albert Furlow
Kaye Robinson
Sample of Convenience By receiving the study materials above,
I consent to participation in this study.
What to collect?

Assume a batter is equally as likely for one of the following 6 events to occur when they
step up to the plate:

1. Hit a single
2. Hit a double
3. Hit a triple
4. Hit a home run
5. Walk
6. Strike out /
ground or fly out.
I want to collect how many times
each of these events occur when
eating a particular color M&M
during the season for each of my
All-Stars.
Independent Variable: At-bats

Dependent Variable: What happens when eating M&Ms before at-bats
Hypothesis:
Remember the boys from the
video:
Brown Ones Hit a single

Yellow Ones Hit a double

Orange Ones Hit a triple

Green Ones Home Run!!
HYPOTHESIS

Eat a Brown: Roll a 1

Eat a Yellow: Roll a 2

Eat an Orange: Roll a 3

Eat a Green: Roll a 4

Eat a Blue: Roll a 5

Eat a Red: Roll a 6
Administering Quantitative
Data Collection
(Procedures for Collecting Data)

1. Access the data collection sheet from your email.
2. Select an M&M from your bag.
3. Record the color of the M&M on your data collection sheet.
4. Eat the M&M.
5. Roll your die (your at-bat for this experiment).
6. Record the outcome for that at-bat next to the color.
7. Repeat for each M&M in your bag.
8. Submit your data once you have finished collecting it, using the
submit button at the bottom of your data collection sheet.

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