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The sole purpose of this entry is so Ariella can read my statistics essay :)

For my group statistics project, we took a sample of eighty-seven students and surveyed them on the subject of body modification. My group members and I decided on this topic because we thought the data found would be fascinating. We asked questions concerning whether the students approve of body modification, if they had done any form of it, and so on. We were surprised by the results the surveys provided us with.
We found our survey experience rather unproblematic, with a small amount of issues in the process. When going to classrooms to conduct our surveys, the topic of the survey was not approved of by everyone. Some students and teachers alike thought our subject was unpleasant. Those who disapproved of the survey most commonly referred to it as, “Gross”. In addition, a few students were not certain of exactly what body modification meant. Once that matter was cleared up, the remainder of the process was a breeze. If given the chance to revise the survey, I would include a definition of body modification on it to make matters easier for the students. Other than that I would not make any changes to the survey.
My group and I came across a handful of difficulties while organizing the data and making the presentation. The most difficult part of organizing the data was totaling all of the results. Having surveyed eighty-seven students with fifteen questions per survey made adding together all of the responses quite timely. Also, we had to be precise when tallying the data to make sure we did not repeat or skip any answers in the process. There were times we were not sure of whether we had already tallied a result or not. In the end we had the correct amount of data for each question.
Preparing the presentation was more challenging than organizing the data. The main reason for this was working with a defective computer. The computer was grueling to work on, it was constantly freezing, shutting down randomly, and running extremely slow. Data was lost on several occasions due to the computer shutting itself off repetitively. What should have taken maybe an hour and a half to put together ended up taking approximately four hours to complete. To add to the computer issues, my group was not experienced in Microsoft PowerPoint. We were not certain of how to make the charts and graphs the style we had wanted them. Fortunately, after exploring around on the program a while, we figured out how to make our presentation the way we had anticipated.
Several results collected from the overall data were found to be rather surprising. The most shocking of them, all in my opinion, was that of the students that have piercings, more of them have pierced themselves than those who have not. It was found that fifty-six percent of the students with piercings, have pierced themselves in the past. Another unexpected result was that fifteen percent of the students surveyed have tattoos. Although that does not appear to be a high number, only one student who participated in the survey was of legal age to get a tattoo without a guardian.
Overall, I enjoyed taking part in this group project. My group partners were fantastic to work with throughout the entire experience. We all got along well and did not have a single issue with each other while working together. I would not change anything about the experience I had doing this project. I enjoyed the group and had a excellent time learning interesting facts about students at RCHS. If given the opportunity I would most definitely take part in doing something similar to this in the future.