Today, we used Wii Bowling in order to test a hypothesis: does bowling with your eyes closed get you a better score? Common sense tells you that, "No, keeping your eyes closed cannot possibly improve your game score". Well, guess again. The pair that kept their eyes closed for the experiment (Kyle and Cam) did significantly better than Madison and I. But why? Is it just because Wii Bowling cannot distinguish finite aspects of someone's technique? Or is it that when someone keeps their eyes closed, they can focus on the pure mechanics of bowling and do not have time to overthink their shot and mess it up? Who knows. Either way, the boys won and I am bitter.
To keep track of our data, we used a spreadsheet in Google Docs and it proved a very useful way to visualize how and what is being measured. It also allowed us to all edit the same document at the same time. However, we did find a few flaws. As we were playing, the scores on Google Docs and on the Wii system were not the same. On the Wii, Cam and Kyle were winning, and on Google Docs, I was winning (???). It's possible that the flaws were due to people incorrectly entering their scores. Either way,
it seems like the Wii system is a more accurate way to keep score and Google Docs is the better method for creating graphs, charts, and keeping track of individual stats.
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