2007-09-04 06:50:07 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
they tested it on mythbusters.
myth statement- A person can be subconsciously influenced into yawning if another nearby person yawns.
status- Inconclusive- evidence towards confirmation
notes- In a test pool of 50 people those who were influenced into yawning by the MythBusters yawned 29% of the time. However, those who were not influenced yawned only 25% of the time. It seems that the Mythbusters also found the average time to yawn for those who did yawn was 9 minutes for those who had been influenced and 9.6 minutes for those who had not, but the only token of this information is a written note in their calculation results and there was no verbal discussion regarding it during the show. Despite this supportive evidence, the 4% difference between the experimental and control groups was not large enough to constitute a statistically significant difference (at alpha = 0.05), and therefore no definitive conclusion could be reached based on these results.
my two cents- sounds like there is some kind of correlation but not enough to confirm. *yawning* lol.
2007-09-04 15:40:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Even the word makes me yawn.
2007-09-04 14:00:07 · answer #2 · answered by Jess 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes...
how funny is that?
you can make someone yawn just by saying the word...
2007-09-04 19:04:47 · answer #3 · answered by M E 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is for me. i yawned just reading your question.
2007-09-04 15:15:49 · answer #4 · answered by frostbite 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For some stupid reason it is. Because it has nothing to do with being tired. It shows a depletion of oxygen to the brain.
2007-09-04 23:13:43 · answer #5 · answered by NORM 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
*yawns really big*
Darn you.
2007-09-04 13:56:56 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋