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Project proposal
This planning document will also form the introduction of your argument.
Overarching Question
What central question are you interested in exploring? Why are you interested in exploring this question?
**A sleep study using males and females using bedtimes/wakeup times and hours of sleep for the weekday, for kids ages 11-14, to see how much sleep students are getting during the week and if there is a difference between ages and males and females. Also does their attendance percentage in school correlate with more sleep. I am interested in this becasue I teach 11-14 year olds
This should be the big picture question that you ask; use at least 5 sentences to describe why you are interested in it.
Does a high attendance percentage >95%, have a relationship with high sleep hours per night (>7hrs. per night) as well as age and gender. Does this relationship differ between males and females and ages. Overall does age, gender, and sleep hours have a relationship with high attendance, >95%?
What specific research questions will you investigate?
List 2-4 specific research questions. Each should be answerable using your data set.
Average sleep for females Average sleep for males Average wakeup time for females Average wakeup time for males Average attendance % for males Average attendance % for females Average sleep for 11,12,13,and 14 year olds Average sleep for 11.12.13.14 year old males/females
Data source
What data set will you use to answer your overarching question?
Give the title of your data set and provide a link to your data.
Sleep, age and gender as it relates to attendance
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hB269WnLnm71C6WXjyBM9blWSF8X1Zf-nNqvftU6E94/edit?usp=sharing
Where is this data from?
Describe the source of the data set--not just where you downloaded it, but the person or organization who gathered the data. Explain why you trust them.
Changing school start times: impact on sleep in primary and secondary school students Open Access Lisa J Meltzer, Kyla L Wahlstrom, Amy E Plog, Matthew J Strand
What is this data about?
Describe the nature of the data in the dataset, including the number of rows and some of the columns which will be important to you.
number of rows=50 gender attendance_percent hrs_sleep
Methods
How will you use your data set to answer your quantitative questions?
For each research question, explain what you will do with the data set to answer the question, and how you will present your answer (e.g. a chart or a table).