Abstract:
The reason we did this study was to determine whether teenage males or females preferred Lady Gaga more. Our hypothesis was that females would generally enjoy Lady Gaga's music more than males. To begin our study, we attempted to find background information on studies on gender preferences for pop music, and more specifically, Lady Gaga. However, we were unable to find a study for gender preference for specifically Lady Gaga's music. We did find that one study was conducted that addressed gender preference to pop music.
We then obtained a random sample of 100 females and 100 males of North Olmsted High School to distribute our survey to determine their rating of Lady Gaga's music. 151 surveys were returned to us and out of the 151, only 139 were familar with Lady Gaga's music. We then entered the data into MiniTab and obtained Descriptive Statistics for the categories of females and males. A 2 sample t test was then conducted to compare the mean rating of Lady Gaga by females and the mean rating of Lady Gaga by males and the population standard deviation was unknown. The test provided us with a p-value of 0 which allowed us to reject our null hypothesis at any resonable level of significance. This gave us sufficient evidence to conclude that females enjoy Lady Gaga's music more than males.
There were several weaknesses in our study. We did not receieve all the surveys that we distributed and some students were unaware of Lady Gaga's music. Another weakness was there was no standard metric rating scale used on the surveys so students were free to rate Lady Gaga' s music according to their own scales which introduced personal response bias. Our study can be extrapolated to other high school in midwestern United States, but cannot be extrapolated to other regions or other age demographics outside of high schools.
"Just a second,
it's my favorite song they're gonna play
And I cannot text you with
a drink in my hand, eh…" - Telephone