Martha Topete, Dayna Melendez & Elsa Calzada Period 6 Statistics Do seniors ditch? Martha Topete, Dayna Melendez & Elsa Calzada Period 6 Statistics

What we’re investigating: Can the wording of a question create response bias? How often do seniors ditch? do their responses change as the wording of the question changes? we expect seniors to lie once the wording changes

Our surveys Survey #1 Survey #2

Procedures: Created 2 different surveys Chose 2 senior advisories (Cardoza & Kwan) Used a calculator to give us either a “1” or “2” at random 1 = survey 1 2 = survey 2 Note: We think we were very effective in minimizing bias because we made our surveys anonymous to try and gather a more honest response from seniors.

Results Survey #1 Survey #2

There was only a .54 difference in our results. We expected the manipulated bias question to have a much lower average than the first. There was only a .54 difference in our results. 2.27 1.73

Conclusion: According to our results, seniors don’t ditch very often We did see a change in the response, the way we anticipated, but it wasn’t enough to conclude that the manipulation of the question changed the way our subjects answered

What we could’ve done better: We should've started earlier so that we could have enough time to survey more seniors Many seniors didnt take our survey seriously, and thus made our results unreliable Chosen more advisories to have a better overall representation: we chose a magnet and voice advisory and magnet is known not to ditch we think this could’ve affected our results by keeping our average low regardless of the way the question was worded

Future projects: Include freshman and seniors to see if theres a major difference in those age groups Manipulate our data by gender, race, age, etc. Do boys ditch more than girls? Do Asians ditch the least?