Streaks

Snapchat is a picture-exchanging social media application, and perhaps one of the most popular ones of this generation. Snapchat allows you to maintain a “streak” with friends. This begins when pictures are sent back and forth between two mutual friends. Keeping a snapchat streak has become a highly valuable bond for kids nowadays. Breaking a streak is probably as awful as breaking a leg. Maybe not. However, many teens do try their best to uphold these streaks for several days or months or years. We were curious as to how many streaks the average high school student at North Olmsted High School (NOHS) was able to manage. We thought fifteen streaks was a good approximation for the number of streaks held by students. To test this, we sent out a survey to students at NOHS to see if they have more than 15 streaks.

• Abstract

  We conducted a study to determine whether the mean number of streaks for North Olmsted High School is higher than 15. We sent out 100 surveys to see how many streaks the average student at NOHS has. There were no studies exactly like ours. Though, when we looked up ‘Snapchat study’ and ‘Snapchat streak study’ there were studies of how much Snapchat was used in the past years or months but not the average number of streaks kept by students, or anyone at all. We decided to conduct this study because Snapchat is the 2nd most used app among teens. We both had a drastic difference of around 30 streaks - Maha kept 7 while Naseeha kept 36. We didn’t know if 7 was too little or if 36 was too much. So, we conducted this study to approximate how many streaks the average student really maintains. We used Minitab to generate our simple random sample. Only 80 of the 100 surveys we sent out were actually returned, which lead to nonresponse bias. Also, we are unsure as to how many people answered the question truthfully. The outliers in our data were ridiculously large, and this can be seen in our graphs. We put our results through Minitab to run a one sample t test. This test was used because the standard deviation of our population was unknown, so a z test would not suffice. The hypothesis test found the p-value to be larger than alpha, so we failed to reject the null hypothesis at the 0.05 level of confidence. There was not sufficient evidence to conclude that the number of streaks maintain by the average NOHS student was greater than 15. The results of our study can be extrapolated to neighboring high schools with similar aged and technologically equipped students. For further work done on this topic, using a larger sample would be more accurately representative of the population. It can be furthered to all high school students across the United States - not limited to North Olmsted High School.