COLORS

QUESTION

Does color preference affect your choice?

PURPOSE

The purpose of my investigation is to determine if color preference affects your choice. This is important to know because if I owned a store and I knew the majority of people liked a certain color, I would be sure to put that color everywhere in my store.

HYPOTHESIS

I hypothesize color preference will affect choice. I believe this because I usually pick my favorite color out of any other colored things.

Procedure

MATERIALSOne clear plastic container to hold gram cubes15 black gram cubes15 brown gram cubes15 blue gram cubes15 orange gram cubes 15 white gram cubes15 green gram cubes15 red gram cubes15 yellow gram cubes15 pink gram cubesA pencil and paper to record data

VARIABLESMANIPULED VARIABLE

The colored object

RESPONDING VARIABLEThe color choices

CONSTANT VARIABLESThe amount of objects being used

The amount of test subjects

1. Gather materials.2. Get a clear plastic container.3. Get 15 gram cubes of the following colors, black, blue, brown,

orange, white, green, red, yellow and pink.4. Put all of the gram cubes in the container.5. Go to my first test subject and ask them to pick ten cubes

from the container. 6. Record the colors picked. 7. Put the cubes back in the container mix it up. 8. Repeat steps 5 - 7 for four more trials using the same test

subject.9. Ask the test subject what their favorite color is out of the

colors available . Record their choice.10. Repeat steps 5 – 9 with four more test subjects.11. Record the number of times each subject’s favorite color was

picked.12. Calculate the percentage of times their favorite color was

picked for each test subject.

DIRECTIONS

PHOTOGHRAPH

Subject

Colors PickedFavorite

Color (of

available colors)

Number of Times

Favorite Color

Picked/50

Percentage of Selections

with Favorite Color (%)

Average Percentage of

Selections with Favorite

Color (%)

Trial 1 Trial 2 Trial 3 Trial 4 Trial 5

1R R OO W GG Y Y Y

W W WO O Y Y R R B

R O YW G O

R Y W G

Y Y YY Y O

O O O O

G P P B B G

Y Y O OG 6 12

13.2

2G P W W P Y

BR BL R B

BL BL BL BL BL G G R O

W

Y G O O W P BR G O

B

Y R B P R BL

G BR W G

O P P Y Y BLBR R W

B

B 4 8

3P R BO G Y

W BL BL P

R W YR B P

G W O P

O BL WP O BL

B O W G

BR Y GR P G

O B Y BL

O G Y O R P

G B BL RP 6 12

4P R BW B G

O P P O

B BL WW BL G Y Y R W

O B RBL W W G BL B

O

W G P P O O

B B BL BR

G R WBL B P

Y W B O B 8 16

5R R G

G Y Y BL BL W W

P P BB O G G Y Y

BL Y WP R G

B B B Y

G G PP B B

R R W W

P P P P BL BL BL BL B

B

P 9 18

Key:

BL=black R=red

BR=brown P=pink

B=blue Y=yellow

G=green O=orange

W=white

DATA

DATA

SUBJECTS WHO PICKED THEIR FAVORITE COLOR

  TRIAL 1 TRIAL 2 TRIAL 3 TRIAL 4 TRIAL 5 AVERAGE

PERCENTAGE OF SUBJECTS WHO PICKED

THEIR FAVORITE

COLOR 

12 8 12 16 1813.2

GRAPH

ConclusionMy hypothesis was incorrect. Color preference does not affect choice. The average percentage of subjects who picked their favorite color was 13.2%. Now that I have found my results, I would like to test something different. My new question would be, if you had the choice of inventing a color, what color would it be and would the color you want to invent be your favorite color?