Statistics project

[LabRat]

My changes in purple.

Originally Posted by Bullitt

Design and Execution of the Study:
As a commuter student, I decided to pursue a topic that I am personally interested in. I wanted to investigate the role that commuter students play in on campus events versus the general student population. My goal in this study was to have commuter students more involved in on campus events. The questions asked of each individual sampled were: “Would you support an increase in school funding and number of events geared towards commuter students in order to get them more involved on campus? Or is the money better spent elsewhere on other projects such as dorm renovation, etc.?"
As of the Fall 2007 semester, the total enrollment for Malone College is 2385 students. This is my total population. As for a sample size, I chose to poll 5% of the total population giving me a sample size of 120 students. (where did you poll them from? the union, a class? Need to be a neutral place, like Zen said, so as to not skew the results.) This study was observational in nature because I was not trying to influence the population in any way. I solely asked my questions and recorded the “yes” or “no” responses. Unfortunately, I had to resort to non-scientific convenience sampling in order to get my desired sample size. With a convenience sample comes a variety of issues that must be addressed, and I will do so later on when I go over the various issues and biases that I faced in researching this topic.

Personally, I would have gone to a few on campus events, then polled how many people there were on campus vs. off campus people. After figuring out what ppercentage of each total population that was then see if it's out of whack (higher percent of on campus vs off campus) There just might be less commuters, so overall it might look like there are less there, but in reality there are just as many, percentage wise. If that makes sense....

Then found off campus people who have never attended an on campus event, and found out why they hadn't.

[ZenGum]

Keep in mind, too, that off-campus people often choose that life because they don't want to be too involved in campus life.
Alternatively, some dormers may want to move off campus but don't want to miss out.

[Bullitt]

Thanks for the responses dude and dudette. I made significant changes in that first part and I think the entire paper turned out well. If you care for a look I've attached it.