Our study asked students in our high school
about their favorite genres of television, movies,
and books. We obtained a list of all male and female
students in our high school, and then used Minitab
to create a randomized list. Our goal was to see if
there was an association between male and female
preference of entertainment genres. We did
background research on similar studies. We found
that drama and romance were the most popular genres
of entertainment in our research. However, the
research we found didn’t stratify by gender. Our
survey included the categories action, romance,
comedy, horror, nonfiction, sports, and other. We
combined the categories for a more accurate
chi-square test. For the chi-square test, we tried
to combine the most similar genres. We combined
action with horror, romance with comedy, and
nonfiction with sports and other. We had a few large
weaknesses in our study, including non-response
bias. Out of the 120 surveys we sent out, we only
got about 80-90 surveys back. Another weakness of
our study was the limited amount of genre choices we
gave in our survey. A confounding variable that
affected our study was the number of movies released
in each genre this year. For example, if more action
movies were released that romance, there’s a better
chance for a person to tend to say that they prefer
action movies. We could extrapolate our study to
other high schools because there is no specific
reason why
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