There are a plethora of possible research study’s that could be conducted in order to engage students and provide them with valuable knowledge. One research study that I previously participated in at Indian River State College in my honors statistics course was the islands project. The online islands project allowed students to collect a random sample from hundreds of people on separate islands and in separate towns. On this online site students were able to conduct study’s on the people they randomly selected such as provide them with food, alcohol, drugs and many other things then have the people perform an activity such as a workout, memory test, or a variety of health exams. The people that were selected on the online islands project reflect a real life sample of people and how they would be
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To complete this I first did research by reading scientific journals that had done similar testing. My observations from the scientific journals was that smoking would have an acute effect of someone’s blood pressure. After I collected the research I then went onto the islands project and gathered a random sample of people to study. The random sample was selected using an online random number generator that helped selected 10 participates from each town at random. Once all of the participants were selected they were split into a control group and an experimental group. The control group was required to eat a piece of liquorice and measure their blood pressure. The experimental group was required to smoke a cigarette and then have their blood pressure measured. Once they completed these activities the results and data were collected and put into a Microsoft excel spread sheet for statistical comparison. Each group got analyzed in search for statistical significance as well as looking for R squared and the P
To complete this I first did research by reading scientific journals that had done similar testing. My observations from the scientific journals was that smoking would have an acute effect of someone’s blood pressure. After I collected the research I then went onto the islands project and gathered a random sample of people to study. The random sample was selected using an online random number generator that helped selected 10 participates from each town at random. Once all of the participants were selected they were split into a control group and an experimental group. The control group was required to eat a piece of liquorice and measure their blood pressure. The experimental group was required to smoke a cigarette and then have their blood pressure measured. Once they completed these activities the results and data were collected and put into a Microsoft excel spread sheet for statistical comparison. Each group got analyzed in search for statistical significance as well as looking for R squared and the P