Then, during the fourth week of class, you will discuss your results and how to write them up in your discussion section. Your paper for this lab will be due no later than the beginning of discussion section, the 7th week of class. If you used the web page, print out your results. If you computed the correlation by hand bring your calculations. Pick a variable, any variable Many people, including college students, report feeling a lot of stress.
Different things stress out different people.
You will work in groups to pick a stressor, that is, a variable that you think affects your stress levels. It has to be something you can measure, and to which you can assign a numerical value. The variable your group picks may be something you measure by self-rating, as would be the case if you think that how tired you are feeling affects how stressed you feel. If you used this variable as your stressor, you would have to designate a scale on which to rate how tired you feel each day. For example, you may think that the number of times your roommate pops his or her gum affects your stress level.