tHE BATTLE OF MEN VS. WOMEN

A STUDY OF TACO BELL

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  PURPOSE

  The purpose of our study was to see if there was a difference in the percent of males and females who order at the register at Taco Bell in North Olmsted, Ohio.  We both enjoy eating at Taco Bell and wondered if there would be a difference in gender.  We assumed that there would be more males than females, so we wanted to collect data to prove our theory. 

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  ABSTRACT 

  The first step in our study was to find background information that was similar to that of our study.  We found a couple of studies concerning the difference in gender at fast food restaurants.  We found in our studies that males outweighed females in both.  For our study, we only used the customers inside the restaurant because observing the customers who approached the drive-thru would be immensly more difficult. Our sample size was smaller than that of the other studies we found, but it was still significantly large.   At first our study was easy until we approached some weaknesses.  We didn't know who we should include in our study, whether children should be included or not.  We decided that it would be unfair to cut off at a certain age, specifically because we did not know the age of the customers, and we included children in our study.  Our three time periods to observe the customers were Saturday, May 10 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., Saturday, May 3 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., and Thursday, May 15 from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.  Since our three time periods were not all the same, but not representative of all different days, our study may not have been as accurate as it could've been.  After we collected all of our data, we performed a two-proportion Z test.  Our p-value came out to be 0.  Therefore, our null hypothesis was rejected at any reasonable level of significance.  Therefore, our study showed that the proportion of females and the proportion of males who ordered food at the register of Taco Bell in North Olmsted, Ohio was different.  We decided our data could be extrapolated to all Taco Bells in the United States since our p-value was 0 and the null hypothesis was rejected at any reasonable level of significance.  We also decided that extrapolation would be valid because our background research matched our results.