Sunday, 22 May 2011

Ruchi & Jason: Hypothesis 2 Analysis-Students Spend Most of their free time on the Internet

Our data was put out as a "Stacked Column Bar Chart". The criteria was 'How much free time would/do you have on a school day without homework and how much of that do you spend on a computer/internet'. Here were the results sorted by gender:


Note: For a html copy (larger images+table) i made a html file through excel.


As you can see for the girls, the amount of free time is fairly consistant, except for the last result which has a abnormal (compared to the results) amount of free time with an exceptionally low time on a computer though in comparison to many of the other people. Having said that, all girls except for that and one other spend either half or in many cases more than half their free time on their computers.

The boys on average (mode) have about 3 hours of free time. Most boys spend over half their free time on a computer (without counting small exceptions). The average time for a boy though to be doing other activities during free time though is approx. between 1.5-2 hours.

In general:
In general I believe that the hypothesis is somewhat true. This is because the hypothesis states that students spend most of they're free time on a computer, and from the results that we collected this may seem true, but it is mostly only marginally true (by half an hour, ect). I believe that in order to get a more solid answer we probably may require more data, and also more data about the person, as quite often everyone spends a different amount of time on a computer on a different day.

6 comments:

  1. This is good but I think the graphs are a bit confusing to read. Also it's the amount of time they spend on the 'internet' not computer :P

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  2. whoops, but whats confusing to read???

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  3. Very innovative guys, using a html file with your graph. The explanation is also very detailed. Good job!

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  4. Good used of html and it's and but not just computer but what about iphone or ipod touch, isn't this make some changes?

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  5. internet and computer i believe should be together, coz on a computer, you could be gaming (not internet), but internet should be on all devices, so yeah, i should have made that more clear during questioning

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