This experiment is designed to test whether or not gender is a major contributing factor to the recovery heart rate in humans. Most would assume that the male heart rate would be considerably faster in recovery time than that of the female. This experiment furthers that assumption by eliminating uncontrolled variables such as age, build, and health conditions.
The male human has always had certain physical advantages over the female human such as increased muscle mass, larger bones, and superb aggressiveness in times where deemed necessary. But is recovery rate (or, how long it takes for the heart rate to return to its resting rate) an advantage possessed by males also? The question posed in this experiment is whether the heart rate of the male will recover faster than that of a female. It is known already that males dominate females i
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Raven, P.H. 1999. Biology, Fifth Edition. United States of America: McGraw-Hill.
The hypothesis tested was that the male's heart rate would fall considerably faster than the female's after one minute of intense physical activity.
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