WEAKNESSES: A confounding variable is defined as a variable
that may affect the behavior or outcome you want to examine but is
not of interest for the present study. Since the middle school was
rowdy, some children in taking the survey may have been influenced
by other children who yelled out their answers. Also, when children
see their friend not answering a survey, they too, decided not to
answer the survey. Age is a confounding variable as well, the older
a person is the more or less they may like stickers. Freshman high
school students may want to feel "grown up" and "to old for
stickers" so they may respond no as a result. Senior high school
students are more mature, they may no longer feel the need to act
grownup because they are. A weakness may be the way in which we
conducted the surveying at the middle school. When surveying the
middle school, we handed out surveys on a voluntary basis. Since
there was no randomization for the middle school, the data could be
biased. Children may respond differently depending on the classes
they take.
EXTRAPOLATION: Our results can be extrapolated to all of
Ohio. Sticker preferences are not unique to North Olmsted. Location
has little effect on sticker preferences because stickers do not
dramatically change from location to location. Most stickers are
mass produced, so students would be getting many of the same kind of
stickers and would have many of the same kinds of opinions about
stickers. Also, the number of teachers giving out stickers would not
vary much from location to location. The area a student lives would
not change their thoughts about stickers. Area and thoughts on
stickers would probably not have a correlation.
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER WORK:
Our study could be broadened. It could also include
elementary school students. A bar chart could be made with twelve
bars- one for each grade. This would show the slope of the data, how
students' opinions change from children to adults. Teacher could
also be broken down into grade as well.
FUN STUFF:
STICKERS AND GAMES!
http://www.edumart.com/
http://www.stickersandcharts.com/
http://www.allaboutstickers.com/
http://www.billybear4kids.com/games/stickers/stickers/IEStickers.html
http://www.boowakwala.com/stickers/kid-stickers.html
Who invented what?
Q: Who invented stickers?
A: Stanton Avery in 1935
Q:Who invented scratch and sniff stickers?
A:Gale Matson, 1965
Q: Who invented bumper stickers?
A: Forest P. Gill
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