Purpose

      The question that I investigated was, is there a relationship between gender and preference in Nike, Under Armour, or Adidas?  The reason I decided to investigate this topic was because I personally have no preference between the three but I wondered if there was a preference and was it linked to gender.

Abstract

      I started of this study by asking myself the question, is there a relationship between gender and preference in Nike, Under Armour, or Adidas?  In order to try to answer this question, I started my in vestigation by looking all over the Internet, attempting to see if anyone before me conducted this experiment or one that was similar to this one.  What I found was that most of the "studies" were biased because it appeared that they only liked Nike and that they were mostly opions with no statistical evidence backing up the findings.  There was only one website with a some what valid conclusion because they had the people who vistited the site vote on which sports appearal that they prefer.  After these findings, I went into the next stage, expecting to see a strong bias for Nike.

      In the next part of my study, I sent out 300 surveys to a randomly selected group of students who attend North Olmsted High School.  The survey asked if they were an athlete, asked what their gender was, and if they preferred Nike, Adidas, or Under Armour.  Once I recieved the surveys back, I noticed that the bias for Nike continued into North Olmsted High School, regardless of gender.  Out of the 300 surveys sent out, I only recieved 186 of the surveys back.  With all the raw data in my hand, I moved into the next phase of my study.

      The next phase of my study involved me inputting all of the raw data into Minitab and running a Chi-Square cross tabulation test.  The results of this test showed the there was no relationship between preference in sports appearal and gender, however, the results of this study were not valid because not all of the assumptions were met.