I chose to conduct a study to determine who in our school accounted for more accidents, males or females. I conducted background research to try to find similar studies that had been done concerning my topic, but I had a difficult time finding statistics that broke down the information by both gender and age. The data also posed a problem because it only concerned fatal car accidents, and the study I conducted was not as specific.
My simple random sample consisted of 80 juniors and seniors who attended North Olmsted High School. Surveys were then sent out asking the students gender, whether of not they had a license, and whether or not they had ever been in an accident, and if so how many. I was only able to send out 63 though because some students were either absent, or attended a program such as Polaris, or PSOP. Of the 63 I sent out, only 36 were returned.
I then entered my results into Minitab and conducted a 2 proportions test and received a p-value of .151, which failed to reject my null hypothesis, so I did not have enough evidence to say that males get in more accidents than females.