The Abstract
Our project is set out to figure out which sport, NASCAR or golf, is more boring to watch on television. We were pondering what our question should be for the AP Statistics project and we found out that we both hated golf and NASCAR but we had a problem. I thought NASCAR was more boring, but George thought golf was more boring. We decided to figure out, of the student body in North Olmsted High School, which sport do they think is more boring to watch on TV., NASCAR or golf.
We obtained our sample through a random name generator. Our instructor gave us a list of every shouldn't who attends NOHS, we won't to Minitab, and used its random name generator to obtain our sample. Our population of interest was every student who attends NOHS. From that population we obtain 150 students, of which we used 115, consisting of grades 9th through 12th, also girls and boys. We looked at each students schedule to find the right time to give them the survey. We put sticky notes on each survey writing the name of the student, and the teacher, period, and room number to specify when the student will be taking the survey. We gave all of our samples wit ht eh sticky notes to the front office, which they will distribute them to the corresponding teachers, which will then be given to the corresponding students.
The 2-proportion Z-test provided that the p-value is .002 and the z is -2.82.We concluded that since the p-value was less than α, we reject the null hypothesis at the .05 level of significance, or any reasonable level of significance. Therefore there is sufficient evidence to conclude that the students in NOHS think golf is more boring to watch on TV than NASCAR. Although there were some weakness in our study, like gender or grade level, and our samples could have been larger and our survey could have been longer by putting more sports on the survey. Our finding could be extrapolated to all of the high schools throughout Cuyahoga county.