In our study, we will be studying the appropriateness of wearing thin strapped tank tops or sleeveless shirts in school.  Students have talked about how the school dress code, which prohibits students from wearing thin strapped tank tops and sleeveless shirts in school, is unfair.  We would like to know if most students feel this way by asking about the appropriateness of this particular dress code.  Also, we are curious to know if staff who work at North Olmsted High School have different views on the appropriateness of this particular dress code than the students who attend the high school.  By doing this study, we are able to obtain a simple random sample, giving us more accurate results than if we chose to do a more selective study.  Through the surveys used to obtain our sample, we hope to make a conclusion about the view’s of North Olmsted High School about the appropriateness of wearing thin strapped tank tops or sleeveless shirts in school.

        We came up with our proposal because we decided that it was an important topic at our school, especially with the recent  weather.  There were no other studies exactly like ours but we found that there were many discussions about this topic on the Internet and many people had strong opinions.  To start our study, we used the Minitab random generator we randomly selected 100 students and 30 staff members of all students and staff at North Olmsted High School.  Then we decided how to word the questions to make sure that everyone, teachers and students, would understand and without using biased language.  This was made sure by including pictures of thin strapped tank tops and providing the school’s policy on tank tops.  We used these two questions on the survey and 91 of them were returned.  After the surveys were returned, it was realized that there was no way of knowing which surveys were from staff members and which were from students.  Therefore, it was decided to compare the proportions of those who agreed, disagreed, and had no opinion instead of comparing the proportions of student responses with staff responses.  With the surveys that were returned, we counted up the number of people who selected each answer and found the proportions.  We ran a Chi-squared test and a difference of proportions test.  But, they were both inconclusive because not all of the assumptions were met.  The data proved that we needed a larger sample size to create higher expected cell counts.  While the data ended up being insignificant, we could still use numbers and graphs to get an idea about how students and staff felt on the appropriateness of tank tops in school.  From the graphs, it seemed that the majority agreed that thin strapped tank tops in school are appropriate and of those who agreed the majority felt the school rules should be changed to allow thin strapped tank tops.