Are We Like Theatre Just The Same?

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Question: Does the amount of productions, (meaning musicals/plays), people have performed in have any relations to how much they like theater on a scale of one to ten? I want to know whether or not the amount of shows has anything to do with how much they like theater. Is it possible that a person who has been in a very little amount of productions versus someone who have been in more than a dozen can like theater just the same?

Hypothesis: The amount of productions people have been in, has no relation with how much a person likes theater. I think that a person likes theater, regardless of how many productions they have been in. I believe that even a person who does not pursue theater can like theater too. Theater is not something that a person has to do for them to be able to enjoy it.

Method: I will go around and ask fifty
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I will ask students at after school play practice and others not there at Egg Harbor Township High School. However, I will ask people from Mainland Regional High School and a few from Fernwood Avenue Middle School. I want to get an accurate description of students of theater and not in theater besides in Egg Harbor Township High School, which is why I will venture outside of the high school.

Results: See attached page

Conclusion: Throughout my correlation and data collection, I proved my hypothesis to be correct. I asked fifty students the same questions. The first question I asked was the amount of productions they have been in. Their answers ranged from zero to thirty-seven. The average amount of productions was 7.9. On the other hand, I asked those fifty people how much they liked theater on a scale of 1 to 10. Not a single person I asked, said a number lower than 5. I asked people who have been in zero productions and they still answered over 5.

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