Super-duper mundane poll: Help out the statistics student!

In My Humble Opinion
21

Male
24
Strongly Agree

I’m starting to notice a pattern among 24-year-old males in this thread…

22

The other students in the class are probably asking classmates, friends, and family. Nobody’s going to get anywhere near a true random sample. I’m sure the prof knows that.

Male, 28, strongly agree.

23

Female
26
Strongly Agree

24

Male
46
Burma

My 3d response is a semi-serious observation as to the questionable ambiguity in your question, as Hogwash observed. Personally, I don’t do math for recreation, but I’m glad it exists when I need to tot up the old checkbook, or when rocket scientists need to do whatever they do.

25

Male
26
Strongly Agree/Agree - somewhere on the boundary. I *slightly *strongly agree.

26

Male, 39, strongly agree

27

Male
56
Agree

28

Male
36
Disagree

29

[QUOTE=mrklutz]
Male
41
strongly agree

Your sampling methodology is definitely flawed. Might as well ask this crowd if they like to use computers for recreational purposes.
[/QUOTE]

Well, the purpose of this assignment is mostly just to assemble and organize data, and to display my recently-acquired knowlege of basic statistical techniques. (In other words, I get to draw pretty little graphs.)

And while there is a section where I discuss potential sources of bias, I’m not exactly worried about sampling methodology. Seriously, how illuminating is a survey of 30 or so people meant to be when it asks one question?

But thank you for your responses so far. Almost done!

30

[QUOTE=Airblairxxx]
Well, the purpose of this assignment is mostly just to assemble and organize data, and to display my recently-acquired knowlege of basic statistical techniques. (In other words, I get to draw pretty little graphs.)

And while there is a section where I discuss potential sources of bias, I’m not exactly worried about sampling methodology. Seriously, how illuminating is a survey of 30 or so people meant to be when it asks one question?

But thank you for your responses so far. Almost done!
[/QUOTE]
If that’s all you need to do, why not just generate random numbers?

31

Female
39
Disagree

32

Male
36 (37 after 2/25)
Agree

33

Male
58
Disagree

34

Male
22
Agree

35

Female
19
Disagree
(said as I work on my calculus homework, gag)

36

Male
38
dinsdale
no

37

[QUOTE=Airblairxxx]
I need help. I’m taking a beginning statistics class, and I have an assignment due.

I have to poll 35 people, then come up with a report on the results. Problem is, I don’t have time to find 35 people. So I need just a minute of your time to answer the following questions.

Gender?

Age?

“I Like Math”–pick one response: Strongly Agree, Agree, Disagree, Strongly Disagree?

There now, that wasn’t so bad, was it?
[/QUOTE]

Female

39.6

Strongly Agree about the math thing

Terrible experience, I must say ( :wink: )

38

Female
37
Disagree

39

fifty something
male
strongly agree

40

I think I have enough responses, folks! Thanks for all your help!

[QUOTE=Crescend]
If that’s all you need to do, why not just generate random numbers?
[/QUOTE]

Because I think that making up data is not in the spirit of this assignment. Although it’s hard to get a feel for what the professor wants, given that this is an online class.