1. Senseless
Kaci Wilson

2. Problem
Does one of your senses improve more than the others when you take sight away?

3. Introduction
Have you ever heard that blind people’s other senses are really sensitive? I went through an exhibit called Dialogue in the Dark. It was pitch black, and it showed you what it was like to be blind. When I came out everything seemed so loud. The main factor is that they don’t have better hearing than they would if they could see, but they just use them more effectively. I want to know which sense is used more effectively without being able to see.

4. Hypothesis
I think that the main difference will be in hearing. I’ve read some articles and they say they say that hearing is the biggest difference, but that age plays a role too.

5. Materials Tennis ball Gum Crayons Lego Dime Ring
Hearing Test ts.com/2009/03/can-you-hear-this-hearing-test/
5 8th grade girls
Blindfold

6. Procedure Take the first six items and put them each in a paper bag
Take the tennis ball, the cheese, and the crayons, still in the paper bag so you can’t see them, and have each of the people try to identify them by smell
Take items 4-6, still in the paper bags, and have each of the people identify them by feeling them
Give the test subjects the hearing test
Then have the subjects wear a blindfold for 10 minutes before retaking the test with the blindfolds on

7. Variables I-Blindfolding people D- Results
C- Things they smell, touch, or hear

8. Results With Sight Feeling Lego Dime Ring Jessica Pass Fail Sydney
Dezzy
Jessica T.
Shelbi
Smell
Tennis Ball
Crayons
Gum
Jessica
Fail
Pass
Sydney
Dezzy
Jessica T.
Shelbi
No Sight
Feeling
Lego
Dime
Ring
Jessica
Pass
Fail
Sydney
Dezzy
Jessica T.
Shelbi
Smell
Tennis Ball
Crayons
Gum
Jessica
Pass
Fail
Sydney
Dezzy
Jessica T.
Shelbi
Hearing Test
Sight
No Sight
Dezzy
19 kHz
Jessica
18 kHz
Sydney
Jessica T.
Shelbi
17 kHz

9. Conclusion
The human body can only do so much, some people are just better at using their senses.

10. Possible Causes of Error
They weren’t given time to adjust to not being able to see.
Some people knew what the objects were.

11. Acknoledgments
Thank you to my mom and all my test subjects, and thank you Mrs.Riffel!