statement of the problem

by dena raheem & tia elkhatib

Hi. This website was designed after a study Tia and I conducted. The question we put under study was "Is there an association between a subject that a teacher teaches, and his/her favorite color?" We chose it because in Psychology we learned about how personality affects our interests and our choices. Now we wanted to see if there personalitiy influences their favorite color or if there favorite color can influence their job. We also maybe wanted to see if there is an association with their favorite color and sex. We thought that everyone would say their favorite color is blue, so we changed the study to teachers' favorite colors and their subject of choice.

abstract... You should probably read this last.

by dena raheem & tia elkhatib

To make a long story short, I have this "abstract" page which should help. Being in Honors Psychology, you really learn alot about the mind and human behavior, obviously. Since we talked about personality in just recently, I thought, "Why don't we do something involving psychology in our Stats project?". So I figured that since teachers are already some-what stratified into groups according to the classes they teach, we could use teachers as our population. I came up with the idea of doing colors from the idea that we learned in psychology that personality coincides with the colors you like and dislike, an idea I found very interesting. So I put two and two together and decided that I would look for an association teachers, but of different subjects. The reason for comparing teachers teaching different subjects is because obviously, there is a reason why someboday teaches English and not math, or scienec and not business. So once again, different interests affect personality, and that affects favorite colors.

From when I was working on background information, it has been proven a number of times through studies I've found that blue has and still is the most common favorite color among people. I already figured that anyway just having many friends whose favorite colors are all blue. Anyway, throughout the sampling I came to that same conclusion that most people are going to favor blue. If you look on the graphs page, all the way on the bottom is a tally table where 18 out of n47 people in my study favoerd blue- a whopping 38% alone of just one color favor blue! So this kind of goes along with the conclusion that being a teacher has nothing to do with your favorite color. I guess it's just that human nature thing. No, it really is a human nature characteristic where there is just no explanation to.

To mathematically find a result, we used a chi-square test. It looks for a relationship between two population groups. After performing a chi-square test, we had a p-value of .5 greater than alpha at the .05 level of significance, so we failed to reject the null. Basically meaning we do not have enough evidence that teachers among different school subjects do not have an association with favorite colors.