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

2. 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

3. Our surveys
Survey #1
Survey #2

4. 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.

5. Results
Survey #1
Survey #2

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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?