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Data Analysis Based off of Class Survey Paige E. Schoneweis Taft College

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In this observational study a survey was given to various subjects whom students selected and then entered their answers back into a data base. For this report a calculator generated random sample of 50 from the larger sampler was used for timely reasons. This sample is meant to represent the population of Americans and the subjects answers in this sample can be used to analyze livelihood factors and social norms. The survey includes questions about appearance, opinions and basic facts about each person. This data was gathered by students then entered into a database of 2627 total surveys. To get a manageable random sample from the original population I used RanInt(1,2627,50) to pick which surveys to analyze. On the one occasion when comparing men and women I once again randomly selected 4 more women by doing the same process and skipping the ones that were men or already in my sample. This was to have an equal amount of each sex. When dealing with incorrect entries in the data set I only looked at the numbers % and other signs or words were ignored. Also 5ft 4 I changed into 64 inches. For the graphs generated form the calculator STATEdit, then entered various data into lists. 2nd -STAT PLOT was where I designed my graphs.

Participants The specific participants surveyed is too numerous to record and not known but they are in some was connected to the student who gave it to them. The data analysis was done by Paige Schoneweis independently. Research Design People were asked to fill out a survey and the data was collected into one data set. From that, a

Survey Analysis random sample of 50 was analyzed regarding various combinations of comparisons. Materials Materials used in this study were simply a graphing calculator and a camera. Procedure

The procedure was to hand a volunteer a survey and ask them to fill it out. Then the data was taken back by a student and entered into a database. Results

Proportions of people at Increasing Height,

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Proportions of people at Increasing Weight

Proportions of people at Increasing Shoe Size

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By these graphs you can see the results are that there is a relationship. There is consistently a highest third bar in each graph and the Height and Weight graphs are very similarly bi-modal.

The boxplots show that the data was relatively normal. There were no outliers and it follows the Chebychev rule becaue it was not perfectly symmetric. The hieight appeared skewed to the left and the weight to the right. There is most commonly an average size person, or slightly small so this makes sense. Women and Mens Income

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The line rising higher is mens income, for this survey men make more than women. Using a median value (STAT-CALC-1variable stats) to compare the two, because there are outliers like people without jobs, men make about $47,127 and women make $36,278. The boxplot also shows how men make a dominately larger amout of money through their income. Relationship Between Political Party and if the respondent feels President Obama will be re-elected

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Relationship btw. Political Party and Obama

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It appears that more democrats think Obama will be re-relected and more republicans believe that he will not. Very few of the proportion of Republicans said yes (3). The other section is the undecided votes and the other political parties, many people also did not apply to a distict party or did not know what their opinion was. Relationship Between Political Party and if the respondent is in Favor of the Health Care Bill.

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Political Party and Health Care Bill

The Health care bill was more commonly not favored by either party, however Democrats the most strongly answered no. The Relationship Between Political Party and the Death Penalty.

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The relationship is republicans most commonly being in favor of the death penalty, democrats were reletively evenly opposed and in favor. The Relationship with Handedness and Favor for the Death Penalty

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I did not feel that a graph gives any real information for this. Of course handedness affecting your thoughts would be a ridiculous assumption, however the data also proves this. It is completely random. Handedness and Amount of Water Consumed in Ounces

This data is also completely meaningless. In a calculator I endered 1,2,3 for right, left and ambidextrious people into list1 and the various amounts of water into list2. A plot of this is not going to show any kinds of trends, there are the most right handed people, so of course there was more water being consumed. Ethnicity and Change in Political Party

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There were not many participants who changed their political party so first I just counted the number of republicans who changed their political party and the number of democrats. It was exactly equal. Five white people changed, 1 black, and 2 hispanics. I think this is more closely related to the proportion of each ethnicity actually surveyed from the beginning because there is an obvious larger about of white people than any other. Relationship with Water and Weight

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With weight in list2 on and plotted on the x-axis and amount of water in list 4 on the y-axis in the graph It shows that larger people did not necessarily show to drink more water. Interestingly the heaviest people drank the least. Maybe this is related to a lack of concern about health. Discussion A persons political affiliation is expected to trend towards certain beliefs. This was clear with the data concerning political party and the health care bill, death penalty, and Obamas reelection. Obama is a democrat so it is not surprising that the most democrats said they think he will be re-elected and inversely not surprising the republicans said he would not. Democrats and republicans did not facor the Health Care Bill, which might be related to where we live, or it just being an unfavorable thing. Republicans were strongly in favor of the death penalty and Democrats were slightly against it. The relationship with handedness and decisions was pointless but good to have a contrastment to the graphs that are actually showing trends. Lastly ethnicity seemed to be a failure, but mostly because there was not enough equal variety, and the amount of water related to weight was interesting. I thought that bigger people would drink the most water but there were not any trends besides the amount of ounces consumed started to decrease as weight increased. I think this may be related to a concern with their health, obviously men weigh more than women and are still not overweight but some subjects may be drinking soda insteasd of water, or other fattening beverages therefore consuming less water and gaining weight. There are studies that show a relationship with a lack of adequate water consumption and excess body fat. (Leroy Perry, 1999) Resources Leroy Perry, R. (1999). Are you drinking enough water?. Retrieved from http://www.naturodoc.com/library/nutrition/water.htm

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