Game vs Social Network
by SooJin P, Sai J, Austin I
Question: Do playing games affect your social skills?
Hypothesis: If 25 male Asian CHS students are tested on their social skills whether they play games or not, then participants who play games will have less social time than people who don't or play only a little.
Parts of the Experiments
Independent variable: 25 male Asian CHS students
Dependent variable: number of hours they spend on socializing and playing games
Control: None
Experimental group: 25 tested participants
Data Table
Bar Graphs
Analysis
From the experiment, we've found out that people who play any types of digital games for 4+ hours per week tend to socialize less than people who plays less than 4 hours. We've noticed a pattern of "give and take", which people give up their activities (especially socializing) in order to play games. As you look at the data table, it is evident that people who played less than 4 hours per week has have higher amount of hours than game hours while people who played 4 or more hours have higher (almost twice) the amount of socializing hours. Thus it is natural to conclude that playing games does affect socializing hours as those two variables have negative correlation with each other.
Conclusion
People who play any sort of digital games for 4+ per week spend less time on socializing per day than people who play less than 4 hours of games per week as those who are not interested in games tend to have more time to socialize with others.
Sources of Inaccuracies/Errors
The values of two variables, hours of playing games per week and hours of socializing per day, were all estimated by the 25 participants, making our datum either overstating or understating. Also, the comparison of the two variables differed by individual participant's beliefs and time management regarding their outside school time.
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