Year 8 Statistics Assesment

Do Year Eight Boys At N.I.S.T Spend Longer On Facebook Each Day Than Year 8 Girls At N.I.S.T?

Introduction:

We are currently doing a unit on statistics in Math

at the moment. For this unit, we had to do a project that involved creating a question to send out to people and then recording and analyzing that data you collected. Then you had to write a report about the data and this is my report. My research question had to do with how long kids spend on Facebook each night. In this report, I will show you the results of my inquiry.

My Research Question: Do Year Eight Boys At N.I.S.T Spend Longer On Facebook Each Day Than Year 8 Girls At N.I.S.T?

Hypothesis:

I think that year eight girls at N.I.S.T spend longer on Facebook than year eight boys. I think this because, stereotypically, boys are more sporty than girls and spend longer outside playing sport than inside on their computers. I also think this because, whenever Im on Facebook, usually more of my friends that are girls are online than my friends that are boys.

Why I Chose My Research Question:

I chose this topic simply because I am quite interested to see if the stereotype that boys spend longer outside then girls is true for the kids in year eight at N.I.S.T. I was on Facebook when I chose my research question (I was at home, dont worry Mrs. Lee) so I just thought I would do one about Facebook.

Reference To ATL: For this project, I have used Organization skills. I

used them when I had to organize the data I collected from almost all the year eight classes.

Year 8 Statistics Assesment

Do Year Eight Boys At N.I.S.T Spend Longer On Facebook Each Day Than Year 8 Girls At N.I.S.T?

Data Collection:

My plan was to collect data from every class

in year eight however I kept running into 8B at inconvenient times so I wasnt able to collect data for 8B. That was a shame because I wanted my data to be as accurate as possible by asking every kid in year eight. I basically went around in each class asking how long each individual person spent on Facebook on average every day. Below is my table that I used to put all my raw data into.

8a 8a 8c 8c 8d 8d 8e 8e Boys Girls Boys Girls Boys Girls Boys Girls Average Time On FB

The Graphs:

My first graph shows each gender in each

individual class and is helpful if you want to look in more detail at my data. It is basically the same as my second graph but spilt up into each individual class. I found the mean of the data from each gender in each class.

Time on Facebook eveyday

Time on Facebook (Hours)
2.5 2 1.5 1 0.5 0 8A Boys 8A Girls 8C Boys 8C Girls 8D Boys 8D Girls 8E Boys 8E Girls 8A Boys 8A Girls 8C Boys 8C Girls 8D Boys 8D Girls 8E Boys 8E Girls

Analysis:

There are several different things that you can tell when looking at this graph. Firstly, it shows that year eight girls spend longer on

Year 8 Statistics Assesment

Do Year Eight Boys At N.I.S.T Spend Longer On Facebook Each Day Than Year 8 Girls At N.I.S.T?
Facebook than year eight boys. You can see this by looking at the girls columns and the boys columns and adding them up. The second thing that you can tell from this graph is that average person in 8C spends longer than an average person from any of the other classes. The third thing that you could tell from looking at this graph is that the average person in 8A spends less time on Facebook than an average person from any of the other classes. However, it is quite hard to tell between 8A and 8E so I made another graph to make it clearer.

Time on Facebook everyday

Average time on Facebook (Hours)
1.8 1.6 1.4 1.2 1 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0 8A 8C 8D 8E How long an adverage person from that class spends on Facebook everyday

Year 8 Statistics Assesment

Do Year Eight Boys At N.I.S.T Spend Longer On Facebook Each Day Than Year 8 Girls At N.I.S.T?
My second graph shows the average time on Facebook for boys and girls in year eight. For this graph I found the mean of the boys time on Facebook and the mean of the girls time on Facebook.

Average time on Facebook everyday

Average time on Facebook (Hours)
1.4 1.2 1 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0 Boys Girls

Analysis:

As you can see here, the column on the right is clearly quite a bit higher than the one on the left. That means that an average girl in year eight does indeed spend longer on Facebook than an average boy in year eight. I think that this is quite a lot clearer than the other graph because you can look at it and within seconds see what its about and the results.

Comments & Explanations:

The Answer To The Research Question:
My research question was Do year eight boys at N.I.S.T spend longer on Facebook than year eight girls? As you can probably see from all my graphs and my data, the answer to my research question is No; Year eight boys do not spend longer on Facebook each day than year eight boys. My hypothesis was

Year 8 Statistics Assesment

Do Year Eight Boys At N.I.S.T Spend Longer On Facebook Each Day Than Year 8 Girls At N.I.S.T?
indeed correct when I said that I thought year eight girls would spend longer on Facebook than year eight boys.

Methods of Data Collection:

I think that my data collection was pretty successful. Of course it could have been better if I had gotten data from 8b because the boys in 8b may spend a long time on Facebook (possibly long enough to take the average time for boys above the girls) but apart from that, I was happy that I got around to four classes and I wouldnt change my method of data collection if I did this again. I dont think emailing a survey would have been a good idea because I would get some people who were just too lazy to comment on my survey.

Improvements:

Apart from the fact that 8b didnt answer my survey; I think that everything went almost exactly how I wanted it to go.

Conclusion/Summary: