In 2018, there are two big “trends” that are going on amongst teenagers in the United States. Those two things are “JUULing”, and playing fortnite. “JUULing” is the alternative to smoking cigarettes. JUULing” has been very popular amongst teens, even though they are not of legal smoking age. Fortnite is an online multiplayer game played on computers and consoles. It is a battle royale shooting/survival game that involves landing on a remote island, gathering weapons and materials, and eliminating other players to try and be the last one remaining. What lead us to choosing this study was that we wanted something that we both found interesting, and had a decent amount of knowledge on. Additionally, there has not been any research done on these two topics so we are on the leading edge of this study. Many of our fellow classmates play Fortnite and JUUL, so we are around both quite a bit. Furthermore, we wanted to study something very relevant in 2018 and these two big trends appealed to us. We thought of creating a study that involved both to see if there is any association between these two trends. We also wanted to see if there is a certain crowd of people who are the first to follow the latest trends, keeping them popular. We would be able to show a possibility of this with JUULing and playing Fortnite having an association.
We conducted an observational study to find if an association exists between JUUling and playing Fortnite from a population of students at North Olmsted high school. We performed this study to see if there is a certain group of people that follow all the trends, or if trends are just random. We also wanted to study a topic that has never been done before, keeping us on the front lines of this topic. These are also two very large trends in 2018, keeping it relevant with the current times. We started our observational study by conducting a survey of 101 students at North Olmsted High School. We had two surveys, one as a cover to help protect the anonymity of those answering, to help limit nonresponse bias, since answering one of the questions can possibly be admitting to an illegal act. We had two questions on the real survey “Do you JUUL?”, and “ Do you play Fortnite?”. On the cover survey we asked “Do you Sing? And “Do you play Fortnite”. We then took our data from the real survey, creating a matrix from the 69 surveys returned and then ran a Chi-Square test for independence in order to determine if an association exists between JUUling and playing Fortnite. The p-value we found was less than alpha. This led us to conclude that there is an association between JUULing and playing Fortnite.
A JUUL is a small device that heats up a cartridge of liquid to create a vapor, which is then inhaled. Each cartridge contains about the same amount of nicotine as a pack of cigarettes, allowing users to achieve a type of buzz. The device is easily concealable resembling a USB drive being small and slender.
Fortnite is an online multiplayer game played on computers and consoles. It is a battle royale shooting/survival game that involves landing on a remote island, gathering weapons and materials, and eliminating other players to try and be the last one remaining.