Welcome to flavortown- Group 22

Group 22- How is taste affected by perception?
11/14/18
Day 1: Today we discussed the materials needed for our experiments. We decided to use dixie cups, and we will have to buy 1200 dixie cups to cover a majority of the students. In order to change the color of the drink, we will need yellow, green, and blue food dye. We started working on SH 18, which is our rough draft, and SH 20, our materials list.


Group 22- How is taste affected by perception?
11/15/18
Day 2: We finalized our rough draft today (SH 18), so as two group members worked on the rough draft, the other two worked on finishing our materials request (SH 19) and list (SH 20). The hardest challenge we faced today was creating a name for our experiment that would encompass how our taste is affected by perception. After coming up with multiple names, we decided on welcome to flavortown. Attached below is our rough draft which outlines the specifics of our experiment. 

Group 22 Rough Draft

Group 22- How is taste affected by perception?
11/16/18
Day 3: Today we did not work on our psych fair project. Instead, we watched a video on scientific studies by John Oliver and learned about statistics in scientific studies.

Group 22- How is taste affected by perception?
11/19/18  
Day 4: We started planning our poster board, however our artistic groupmember was not here, so we planned out what would go on the posterboard. We need our hypothesis, research, groupmember names, how we would prove our hypothesis, and relationship between research and hypothesis. 

Group 22- How is taste affected by perception?

11/20/18
Day 5: Today in class we continued to work on the poster. We created an organized outline to help us decide what we needed to put on it. We also created our google form for the surveys we will need for the actual day of the psych fair. 

Group 22- How is taste affected by perception?

11/27/18
Day 6: We finished our poster and preped for parent night tonight. We did some finalizing on the plan for the experiment and discussed what we still needed to get. Extra cups and food dye were necesary.
During parent night we were able to test out our experiment for the first time. At first we started drink #1 as the orange drink, then drink #2 was the purple drink, and drink #3 was the red drink. However in the middle we switched drink #1 and drink #3 to check if it would make a difference. We knew that tonight was our night to test out different ways to conduct our experiment. We ended up sticking to our original plan for the official day of psych fair. On parent night we ran the experiment on 27 parents and students. The results came out pretty consistent with our hypothesis, as many believed drink #1 was orange, drink #2 was grape and drink #3 was cherry. We decided not to tell them what the actual flavor was at the end in order to prevent any errors for the next person going. The flavor for all three drinks was cherry. To dye our original solution we put in seven drops of blue food dye to change the red kool-aid to purple. For the orange drink we had to put in 12 drops of yellow food dye. 

A picture of Bridget and Nellie, two group members, at parent night. 

The orange drink, left, was our orange "flavored" drink. The purple drink, middle, was our grape "flavored" dirnk. The red drink, right, was our cherry flavored drink 

Group 22- How is taste affected by perception?

11/28/18
Day 7: Today was the big day. We got to school thirty minutes early to prepare our drink and start filling cups with our drinks. Compared to the night before we put less drink inside the dixie cup because we had a lot of parents tell us to put less. Throughout the day we had to refill the pitchers three times (6 quarts of each flavor) . In order to prevent an error we had to to create the drinks underneath a table so no one would see us add food dye. At the start of the day, drink #1, the orange drink, was able to fool a majority of the people, however as the day went on our data results for drink #1 started fluctuating between cherry and orange. On the other hand, drink #2, the purple drink, perfectly followed our hypothesis as a majority of people believed the flavor was grape. We believe that the purple drink worked well because the color has a strong connection associated with the flavor and that the color is distinctly different from red. In total we had 294 survey result, and for drink #1 cherry won, but orange was a close second. For drink #2 grape got the most survey results, which supported our hypothesis. For drink #3 cherry got the most survey results.  Here is a link to our data graphs https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V6R7g6kjc9-lBLkVNCWlMOqf3AiZlvTk5tf7a2GIZ4o/edit?usp=sharing 
Here is a link to our google spread sheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oTqiOHGBzXAobANJORqg9IfgSoX-PvpJKXSoSVB4jv0/edit?usp=sharing

A view from our table 

Our poster!

Group 22- How is taste affected by perception?

11/29/18
Day 8: Today we went through our spreadsheet to analyze the data results. We had to go through the data and fix typos made on the survey. Instead of having a drop down bar with flavor choices on our survey, we had the people write in their own flavor. If we could go back and change something it would probably be to add flavor choices in our survey. But after analyzing our data our hypothesis was proven correct. Our hypothesis was depending on the color of the drink, the students will determine their perception of the flavor based on their past experiences with taste of foods with the same color. Our data showed that purple has a strong connection with grape flavor and therefore many thought that the purple drink was grape even though it was cherry. However with the orange drink while many thought it was orange flavored a slight majority thought it was cherry. We believe that because orange and red are close in color, the association between the color orange and the flavor orange is not as strong.