You're right Spaz, I dunno what I was thinking. Obviously I'm a failure at statistics. =P It sounds like a good idea. When I included measuring heads in my post I didn't mean that it would be difficult. Just wrap some measuring tape around someone's head, woohoo.. I'm just unsure of what you're trying to prove, exactly.
Ummm...hmmm. Well, I guess if you don't go to a school that's particularly strong in science, you might not do too badly. Your project doesn't really have any real-world application though (or none that wouldn't be considered discriminatory and subsequently banned from use), which would make it hard for you to succeed if your classmates are remotely serious.
Also, if you aren't using an IQ test, you can't say that you're comparing anything to IQ. What sort of a test did you use? Math? English? Science? Did you make sure that all subjects had received essentially identical educations, or do you have some way of explaining why previous education doesn't matter? You did at least eliminate one variable by having everyone take the test at the same time, but there's a multitude of other things you've hopefully thought about.
At my school, every Freshman and Sophomore is required to do a Science Fair project, and a good many Juniors and Seniors do projects for credit as well. We've sent six students to the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) three years in a row, and considering the size of my school (180 kids at most), that's saying something.
At this point, I've been forced to go to so many science fairs that I can generally tell which projects are going to get torn apart and which actually stand a chance. A good rule of thumb is that if the project has fewer than 10 human subjects or 20 plant/animal subjects, has the same title as three other projects (for example, "The Effect of Music on _____"), has no real-world application, is too subjective ("Do Dogs With Kind Owners Seem Happier?", though even this could be easily pulled off by someone who knows what they're doing), or is common knowledge ("What Happens When Plants Don't Get Sunlight?"), it's a bad project. There are, of course, exceptions, but only downright amazing projects can get by.
This year was the first time I actually did well at Science Fair (my project was the top team project in Behavioral at the District Science Fair, and won an award for "Outstanding Research in Psychology"). Pathetic compared to a lot of kids from my school, but hey, I was proud
Yea, my school IS NOT good at science, let alone my class - I mean come on 30 immature boys - but yeah my best one was a Technology one, I made a fruit picker (various ones) out of a mop, pretty cool, I know!
BTW I AM using an IQ test, just not calculating their IQ just using their score