Definition
procrastination \proh-cras-tuh-NAY-shuhn\, noun:
1. To put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness.
Quote
"Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is burried"
- Unknown
AP Stats Fast Fact
A small group of test subjects (a sample) is often used to make a generalization about a large gourp of subjects (a population).
Conclusion
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Because our sample size was not large enough, Although we still ran our chi-square
Goodness-of-Fit test and came up with results, these results cannot be called valid.
This is disappointing because our study was so unique, that it would have been nice to see if there were indeed
any correlation between a student’s preferred music genre and their level of procrastination.
Had our sample size been large enough, we could have come up with
the following conclusion:
After performing our Chi-Square analysis, we come up
with a p-value of 0.009147. Therefore, we can reject the null
hypothesis, the procrastination level was homogeneous for each genre of music,
at any reasonable level of significance. Therefore, we have sufficient
evidence to say that the true average levels of procrastination differs for each genre of music