How Geeky Is KR
A study on the amount of AP classes taken by students.
By:
Tommy Allen
Scott Hausman
The Survey Page Number Student Number Result (NH = Not Home)
Page Number Student Number Result (NH = Not Home) 24 18 NH
6 40 NH 9 54 0
10 10 NH 28 23 NH
11 17 0 25 54 2
20 31 NH 11 22 0
24 19 NH 3 39 NH
16 44 NH 9 3 0
7 52 NH 35 24 0
15 46 NH 34 16 0
8 46 NH 12 33 NH
26 41 NH 12 13 NH
13 6 NH 21 9 Moved
9 20 NH 38 22 Unlisted
35 13 NH 4 25 NH
12 12 NH 12 17 0
9 12 NH 32 3 NH
39 12 3 12 46 NH
39 19 5 4 38 Unlisted
30 12 NH 27 26 NH
37 49 NH 12 26 3
1 45 NH 21 51 2
36 53 0 34 46 NH
31 6 2 27 12 NH
11 12 0
Mean = 1.133
The Results
Min = 0
Lower Quartile = 0
Median = 0
Upper Quartile = 2
Max = 5
9
Classes People
8
0 9 7
6
1 0
5
2 3 4
3
3 2
2
4 0
1
0
5 1
0 1 2 3 4 5
The Story
Our project was going to be a survey. The survey
would include the question: “How many AP classes
do you plan to take at Kentridge?” What we
decided to do was to randomly select a number
from 1 to 39 to decide what page of the student
directory we would look at. We then randomly
generated a number from 1 to 54 to decide the
student that we would call from that page. We
would continue this process until we obtained at
least fifteen answers. In theory this was a great
idea except that it had some slight flaws.
More of The Story
The first problem we experienced was that page 39
had only 43 names on it. To alleviate this problem
to two of us decided to still randomly generate a
number from 1 to 54 so that it would have the
same chance of picking one of the students as any
other, and luckily we never generated a number
larger then 43 on that specific page. The second
problem occurred when we came across students
without a phone number forcing us to skip that
person.
And Yet Another Page of The Story
The third problem occurred because of our survey
format. It was a convenience format because we
called at around 3:30 to 4:00 and skipped those
who did not answer. We still randomly generated
everyone, but 31 of the 46 people that we called
were not available. This includes when parents
were home, but not the student because most
parents do not seem to know how many AP
classes that their children take, and some do not
even know what AP is.
The Conclusions
Our data clearly showed a large skew. This is
because you can’t take less than 0 classes. Our
data however, was consistent. More people don’t
take AP classes than those that do. In fact, the
curve from the histogram was an extremely
consistent decline. We did notice that people who
do take AP classes are more likely to take more
than 1 class. No one that we surveyed was taking
only 1 class. This is probably because if someone
takes an AP class in their junior year, they will also
take one in their senior year.