Discussion

After reviewing our data and analysis, we have discovered that we did not prove our hypothesis with our experiment. The lack of a significant difference between wet sites, and wet and dry sites show that our hypothesis was completely wrong. To see if perhaps the drop in mold levels was because of the water differences in site 3 and 4, we performed a t-test between all of the wet sites mold levels and all of the dry sites mold levels. With a t value of 1.053 and a t alpha value of 2.021 we found no statistical significance. Although this proves our hypothesis wrong, we can now rule out two possible reasons for the mold drop in site 4-soil texture as well as moisture. This means that this drop must be due to another environmental conditions observed in the biota survey such as levels of Magnesium, Algae, Phosphorous, Manganese, Iron, Aluminum, Worms, Bacteria, pH, yeast or plant diversity. Perhaps there were variables beyond our control that could have affected our experiment, thus causing these results. However, further research could help prove what causes this drastic drop in mold population in site 4 compared to sites 3 and 4.