cjedd27 Posted December 7, 2011 Report Share Posted December 7, 2011 I am just beginning my internal assessment assignment for my Math Studies class. We chose topics last week, and I chose to determine whether there is a relationship between gender and which sport they prefer to watch. Is this a good topic? bad topic? thank you! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabs44 Posted December 7, 2011 Report Share Posted December 7, 2011 I am just beginning my internal assessment assignment for my Math Studies class. We chose topics last week, and I chose to determine whether there is a relationship between gender and which sport they prefer to watch. Is this a good topic? bad topic? thank you!How many options of sports are you going to be looking at? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjedd27 Posted December 7, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2011 (edited) Probably 5: Baseball/softball, volleyball, football, soccer, hockeyDo you recommend having more? I'm going to use a chi squared test to determine whether they are related. Edited December 7, 2011 by cjedd27 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabs44 Posted December 7, 2011 Report Share Posted December 7, 2011 Probably 5: Baseball/softball, volleyball, football, soccer, hockeyDo you recommend having more? I'm going to use a chi squared test to determine whether they are related.Hmmm... I don't quite get how this is going to work. Won't you just have a bar graph for each sex? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjedd27 Posted December 7, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2011 (edited) Probably 5: Baseball/softball, volleyball, football, soccer, hockeyDo you recommend having more? I'm going to use a chi squared test to determine whether they are related.Hmmm... I don't quite get how this is going to work. Won't you just have a bar graph for each sex?I was planning on creating a matrix with the columns being the sports, and the rows the genders, and then putting the number of who prefers watching each sport inside the matrix. Then I would find the chi squared value and compare it to a level of significance( I'm not sure which percent yet) to determine if I will accept or decline my hypothesis.Does that sound right? I'm not sure, my teacher hasn't really helped us with our project or given us feedback at all on anything. Edited December 7, 2011 by cjedd27 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dessskris Posted December 7, 2011 Report Share Posted December 7, 2011 you need to have more independent variables e.g. age Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabs44 Posted December 7, 2011 Report Share Posted December 7, 2011 (edited) Just doesn't seem like a very good topic to be honest, sorry! Edited December 7, 2011 by Sabs44 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dessskris Posted December 7, 2011 Report Share Posted December 7, 2011 actually it's a quite popular topic. so you can't really say it's not a good topic.@OP you may want to also ask how many hours people spend doing sports in a week. or also how much money they spend for training or sportswear etc Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjedd27 Posted December 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 actually it's a quite popular topic. so you can't really say it's not a good topic.@OP you may want to also ask how many hours people spend doing sports in a week. or also how much money they spend for training or sportswear etcUnfortunately someone else in my class is doing preference in which sport they like to play, so I have to test which sport they like to watch. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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