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Discussion
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Weaknesses in the Study:
Sending out 100 survery, I received 43% of the
surverys back. There was alot of non-respone bias with the study
so basically 57% of the study was non-resposnse. Most of the
students that got the survey were either not attending North
Olmsted High School anymore, or they were absent the day they
recieved the survery and simply some didnt bother to write
anything on the survery. The confounding varibles could be that
the student has some health problems so they could be a reason
they may not play any sports or be in any activites that require
them to be physical. Then there are students who have a lack of
motivation.
I can extrapolate
my results to a broader population. For example I can make the
population of the study all the schools in NorthEast Ohio and
survery students from 9-12th grades. There would not be much of
a diffrence to the data. It would be around the same. I can even
make it go borader to all of Ohio and I would still get around
the same results.
There could have been
many changes I could have made. Sample size needs to be larger.
I could have sent out more than 100 surverys to the students,
maybe I would have got more back. Then I could have put more
questions on the survery, making the study much broader. I may
have put a question saying that if the person says no for not
being in any student activities, would they more likely be
absent as often then they did when they were not in any. Instead
of just seeing if absences affect activites, I could have seen
if grade or gender affected them instead.
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