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We are testing if yawning is contagious by preforming an experiment. We will distract a random 12th grade student by asking them a question while one of us yawns. If they yawn then it proves that yawning is contagious and if they don't yawn then it's not. Once we see if they yawned or not we will explain to them what we were really doing and receive their initials. We predict that yawning will not be contagious.
Some of our participants had a strong urge to yawn as a reaction to seeing one of us yawn. However most of the participants didn't yawn because they either didn't notice us yawning or they were too concentrated on the question we were asking. They also said that they didn't yawn because a group member was covering their mouth while yawning.
The conclusion found by this survey is that yawning is not contagious. When someone yawns next to someone else, they do not have to react by yawning but can actually control it by focusing on something else. The participants who did yawn had a "follower" mentality which they felt compelled to do something they saw someone else do. If yawning was truly contagious, the participants would yawn regardless of their state of mind because the survey members "infected" the population by yawning thus transmitting it which would take its effect and result in the participant yawning. So, by the observations of this survey yawning can be controlled which disproves the theory that it is contagious and satisfies the theory that yawning is not contagious.
Yawning is not contagious, so our prediction was right :)
This tells us that the majority of the participants didn't yawn.
https://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/classic/bar_pie_chart.asp?temp=8541776