Streaks

Weaknesses

One of the weaknesses in our study was nonresponse bias. We sent out 100 surveys and only 80 were returned. There may have also been response bias. Students may have confused “how many streaks do you have” with “how long is your longest streak.” We got responses as high as 10,000, which seems like an unreasonable amount of streaks to maintain. We are unsure as to how we could have made the survey any clearer -  it was pretty straightforward. This was a major weakness in our study. As the graphs show, there were several outliers which skewed the data. This wasn’t a very accurate study, and the outliers could have been a result of students answering the survey questions immaturely and putting random numbers as answers. Or, the odd number of streaks may have been accurate, although highly unlikely. An extraneous factor which was not controlled for our study was gender. Girls and boys may tend to use social media differently. Girls may use it more than boys or vise versa. However, to find the mean number of streaks the average NOHS student has, both boys and girls should be included. To control this extraneous factor, and equal amount of boys and girls could have been randomly chosen for our sample. Our actual sample had more boys than girls.