Kendraaa's+Bean+Passing

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__ 1. How does the number of beans being passed change as your finger combination change? __ I think what changes the number of times the bean is successfully passed changes based on the finger combination. Many people aren’t used to holding something with only their index and middle finger and that makes it harder for them to be able to receive and pass the beans. That’s the reason many people dropped the beans and the reason that they took a longer time for them to adapt to it. When it was easy ones, like your thumb and index, the passes are quick and easy, but as they change, it takes a while to adapt to the changes before you kind of get the hang of it. __ 2. What are some conclusions you can develop from looking at this data? __ This experiment shows that the more uncomfortable the hand combination is the less passes you make. It also shows how hard it would be to hold stuff or pass and receive things without using your thumbs. It shows how much easier using our thumbs to do things is. The less number of passes were made with fingers that weren’t using our thumbs or index fingers.

__3. What might 2 or 3 sources of error that occurred during this experiment?__ I think that some people may have switched finger combinations accidentally. For example, if the finger combination was UR2-UR5 and you accidentally switch to UR2-UR3 then the number of passes will increase because the finger combination is a more comfortable position. I also think that some people might have had their hands cramping and they let go of the beans causing it to fall. Another error could have been miscounting the number of passes you were making.

__ 4. How does this lab demonstrate "Adaptations"? __ It shows that we actually can adapt to finger combinations after a while. For example, UR2-UR5 finger combination to a very long time to get used to, especially for me. We had to make changes to the way we held things and find easier ways to be able to use so that we could easily pass the beans from one person to another, quickly, but also without it falling.