Statement of the problem
The study that we will be conducting is focused on the relationship between gender and the number of times that gender is pulled over. We chose to do this study, because we are interested to see if there really is a difference between the quality of men’s and women’s driving. We are truly doing this research to test if it’s really true that males or females are the better drivers. It’s always been the battle of the sexes and in this case, we are trying to provide enough information to the public to support our idea that one or the other is a better driver. Overall, we are trying to focus on doing a test that would actually interest the public with a good informational study.
Abstract
We started our study by thinking about who would truly be the better driver if a test was done between famlaes and males. It has always been the battle between who is better at just about anyting, in this case, driving. We first started of by looking on the search engine google for any previous studies that had involved the difference between males and females and the amount of times that they have been pulled over. We typed in "Worse drivers, males or females?" and clicked on the second link that they supplied us with. We aquired the data that it supplied and used that as part of our background research. We wanted to find out if there had been any previous studies that would support our idea that one gender is better than the other one. The study we looked at did prove that women were for the most part better drivers than males. It was not as surprising, because it has been clear enough that over the years, females are usually more precautious. We then had our instructor get us a list of every student in North Olmsted High School and sort them by grade level on a program we have used during this whole AP Statistics course, MINITAB. After we sorted these students based on their grade, we later took out the underclassmen (freshmen and sophmores) of the school since it is reasonable that not many of these have even gotten a chance to get their license. We kept the upperclassmen (juniors and seniors) since it is more likely that they will make our study stronger and more reliable. When we did this, we split the students into two different groups, males and females. After spliting them up into males and females, we assorted the males to where there was only 100 males and we assorted the females to where there was only 100 females, this was a random assortment. We were trying to have a large enough sample, but at the same time it would have been very difficult to have done the whole junior and senior class. Just like any other study, there will always be impurities when trying to get honest answers back. In our study there were a couple of weaknesses such that many of the responses we received in return were bizzare and answered untruthfully. Also, many of the students that we chose, had still yet to obtain their driver's license. All together, we hope that with the information we have obtained, it is enough for us to many a valuable conclusion that the audience else can turn to.