Conclusion
At
first, we performed a chi square test to see if gender was associated
with the preference of sports. There turned out to be no association but
we can't validly say that because two of our expected cell counts were less than 5. Therefore, our chi square test was probably invalid. This could have been contributed to our sample size because of our response bias
We then revised our test using a chi square goodness-of-fit test. We found that there was in fact a difference between what sports the students at North Olmsted
High School preferred to watch from the choices of the four Cleveland sports teams. We rejected the null hypothesis at the .05 level of
significance because our p-value was less than alpha.
Therefore, there is sufficient evidence to suggest that there is a
difference in Cleveland sports team preference among students at North Olmsted high
School in at least one category.
We thought that the girls would prefer the Cleveland Indians more because of Grady Sizemore,
but the Grady Sizemore effect was not evident in our study. Also, there wasn't much evidence
to show that the guys like the Cavs more. All in all, the results we found were that gender did
not effect the preference of the students, but we did find that there was a difference in preference
overall. The Cleveland Cavaliers showed a substantial difference than all the other Cleveland sports,
turning out with the highest results by far.