Effects of Gender in Heart Rate

Effects of Gender in Heart Rate

Descriptive statistics gives a summary representation of a dataset. In this exercise, we are looking at the Heart rate of men and women before and after exercise. We expect women to have a higher resting Heart rate compared to men. The resting heart rate increases with age in men and women from 20s to 40s and then starts to decrease (McMullen, 2020). The mean, variance, and standard deviation of men’s and women’s heart rate in rest and after exercise is summarized in table 1 and table 2 below (Emmanuel, 2017).

Table 1. Descriptive statistics of Heart rate before and after exercise for the male quantitative variable.

Table 2. Descriptive statistics of Heart rate before and after exercise for the female quantitative variable.

The mean heart rate after exercise is higher than the mean heart rate at rest in men. The variation and the standard deviation are also higher after exercise than while resting. Men exhibit higher variation in heart rate during exercise than when they are resting(McMullen, 2020). We can conclude and say the heartrate of men is more spread after exercise as compared to when they are resting. The mean women’s Heart rate is higher after the exercise as compared to when they are resting. However, the variation is low after exercise than when they are resting. The variation is a different case than what is shown by the men’s dataset.

When we compare the heartrate of men and women, men’s heart rate is generally lower than women’s heart rate. The variation of heart rate is higher in men compared to women at rest and after exercise. This is shown by a variance of 49.74 in men at rest and a variance of 39.30 in women at rest. The men’s heart rate is more spread as compared to women’s heart rate. It means that women’s heart rate is closest to the mean. A higher standard deviation of 7.05 in men at rest explains how far the data is away from the mean. On the other hand, women’s dataset has the lowest standard deviation (Lee, Kyu & In, 2015).

Reference

Joshua Emmanuel. (2017). Descriptive statistics in Excel mean, median, mode, std. deviation… [Video]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/mtmrAXwLcuU

Lee, D. K., In, J., & Lee, S. (2015). Standard deviation and standard error of the mean. Korean Journal of anesthesiology, 68(3), 220.

McMullen, M. (2020). Why You Should Know Your Resting Heart Rate – Fitbit Health Solutions. Retrieved 24 March 2020, from https://healthsolutions.fitbit.com/blog/resting-heart-rate/