Lip Balm Research Paper

The current drug epidemic is problem the majority of the country is aware of. There is always something on the news about a local drug bust, a parent overdosing while their child is present, or about people being caught trying to smuggle an illegal substance into the United States. With this in mind, some communities are now concerned about the sales of morally “criminal” substances, such as lip balm. Franco Badaboom from Badaboom and Badabing Legal Services has asked for the claim that lip balm is addictive and harmful to the education of youths to be investigated. Researchers will be testing this claim by proposing a non-experimental, quasi-experimental, and experimental research design.
In the non-experimental design, researchers will give a survey to a class of 30 college students. The survey will include a mix of question types, including: open-ended, partially …show more content…
The factors that will be used in the correlational design are the students’ grade point average and the number of times the students apply lip balm a day. The goal of this correlation is to see if there is some merit behind the idea that using lip balm is potentially harmful to the education of youths. The closer to +1.0 or -1.0, the correlation is, the stronger the relationship will be. However, if the correlation is closer to 0, the weaker the relationship. If the correlation is 0, there is no relationship. The researchers predict that there will be a strong negative correlation in this study. This would mean that as the number of times a student applies lip balm a day, the lower that person’s grade point average will be, and vice versa; the lower the number of times a student applies lip balm, the higher their grade point average. The correlational analyses results will be graphed onto a scatter plot for easier