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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).*