QUESTIONS:

What is your favourite class?

How would you rate Riverside’s electives on a scale of 1 to 10?

What is your favourite subject in school?

TYPE OF SURVEY WE DID?

We did a convenience sample for our survey assignment. A convenience sample is a example a sample types. We went up to people anonymously and asked them their favourite subject in school, the subject that they’re getting the best mark in and the last is on a scale from 1 to 10 how would you rate the electives.

IS YOUR QUESTION APPROPRIATE?

I think our questions were an appropriate set of question. Our questions are very relatable because they’re all about school. Our question about the best mark was a bit personal but we really didn’t go into details.

INFLUENCING FACTORS? 

Bias: Maybe it was bias for my partner and I to ask what their favourite subject was because if their doing well in the course they would probably enjoy the course.

Use of Language: We used a people friendly questions that is a pretty common question when someone is in school. I think the way we worded are questions a good way to word them without getting confused.

Ethics: Are survey doesn’t suggest anything illegal or suggesting anything bad. Were not judging them at all so I think that survey questions are appropriate.

Cost: Our survey doesn’t have anything that’s negative on it so I think they’re just answering questions and it doesn’t have a cost because it’s confidential and they’re helping us out.

Time and Timing: I think the time of our survey was an okay time to ask because the people we asked weren’t in a rush and we asked if they were able to do our survey. It is near the end the semester so they were probably studying for finals the classes might be more enjoyable if there wasn’t finals.

Privacy: Are recordings were all kept confidential so we didn’t right down names we didn’t tell anybody. If people didn’t want to answer they didn’t have to. We asked before the survey if they wanted to do our survey.

HOW IT IS A CONVENIENT SAMPLE?

It’s a convenient sample because we didn’t organize the people that surveyed into a list or anything we just asked the question to any bi-stander. They were on they’re way so we just asked. They were nearby and easy questions so we could get a general idea and we could information quickly.

MEAN, MEDIAN, MODE?

Rating how enjoyable the electives are on a scale from 1 to 10: 6, 8, 8, 3, 5, 8, 5 1/2, 7, 10, 7, 6,

Mean: 6, 8, 8, 3, 5, 8, 5 1/2, 7, 10, 7, 6 / 11= 6.185950413

Median: 3, 5, 5 1/2, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8, 8, 10

Mode: 8

We decided to choose this question so we could easily the part about mean, median and mode. On Average or the Mean was 6.185950413. For Median we lined the numbers  up from least to greatest and we picked to survey 11 people so it would be easy to find the Median. The Mode is the number that comes up the most and 8 came up 3 times.

It was a little bit bias because the convenient sample is always the best sample type because it doesn’t give the number for the general population. We asked 11 people when there’s a lot more than 11. Maybe if we did more people that would have been a more accurate reading for the people in Riverside.