Abstract In progress. Introduction A few weeks ago I conducted a survey for my 1510 stats class.

I only selected 10 random people to ll out the survey, but there were other people from Taft College and Bakerseld College doing the same thing to collect data. The purpose of this random surveying of people is to answer some randomly asked questions. Everything was random; the people taking the survey were randomly selected, and their answers were also randomly selected. There are a few questions that will be addressed for sure. They are: is there a relationship between an appropriate combination of a person's height weight, ring, or shoe size? Is there a difference in gross income based on gender? Is there a relationship between political party and if the respondent feels president Obama will be re-elected, if the respondent is in favor of the health care bill as passed, and if the respondent is in favor of the death penalty? Is there a relationship between handedness and in favor of the death penalty, and the amount of water consumed? Do more democrats or republicans change party afliation to the tea party? Does the weight of the respondents affect how much water they drink, and does gender affect how much water each individual drinks? This study was made to answer questions asked by people and to see if the samples represent the population. I didn't really know much about this before this study. After this study we should be able to answer most of these questions. I believe that certain factors or variables will affect the outcome of certain questions like gender and weight.

Materials and Methods The materials are 10 randomly selected people, ten surveys and a couple of pens. I gathered my data at an Albertsons. I asked a few random workers if they would take the survey they said yes. Then to keep it random I asked random customers if they would take the survey many said no, but I got enough to nish the surveys. If I would have asked all the workers to take my surveys it would have taken the randomness out of the experiment so I made sure to ask customers, and that way the data I collected from the surveys was guaranteed to be random. It was crucial that I collected the data the way I did because if I would have collected the data any other way it might have not been random and it would have taken the variety out of the experiment. After I collected the data I input it online where it was combined with surveys from other people. With all the people from TC and BC we ended up with a population of around 2562. From that I took a simple random sample of 50 using TC stats, (a program that was helped designed Brian Jean my stats teacher for iPads), to try to answer these questions. TC stats will also help me analyze the data to hopefully answer the questions.

Results I made a table to hopefully help answer the rst question of height affecting weight shoe size and ring size. I added gender just to be able to see if the respondent is male or female. Gender does play a part in this males are usually taller, heavier, they also have a bigger shoe size and ring size take a look at the table below to see for yourself. Also, the tallest males and females are heavier with bigger shoe and ring sizes compared to the shorter males and females.

Table 1: How Height affects Weight, Ring size and Shoe size

For the second question I made another table to try to determine whether gender affects annual gross income. The table is self explanatory. There are more males unemployed than females in my sample 6 males to one female. That will change the average between the males and females. From my table I believe that more men have higher paying jobs because there are more females with low income jobs. However there are a few females that are way out there on the money making. The averages surprised me.

The males annual income average was 28285.3846, and the females annual income average was 38180.3333. The six unemployed men really hurt the average. There is a difference in gross income based on gender I believe. Table : 2 Is there a difference in gross income based on gender?

I made a third table for the third question is there a relationship between political party and if the respondents feel that Obama will be re-elected, if the are in favor of the healthcare bill passed, and if the are in favor of the death penalty? I believe that party afliation does not affect whether or not the respondents believe Obama will be reelected. Not many people believe that Obama will be re-elected. I'm not sure if party afliation affects whether or not people approve of the healthcare bill passed; I couldn't really tell. As for approval of the death penalty party afliation doesn't really matter. It's a matter of personal opinion and most people are in favor of the death penalty. Table 3: Is there a relationship between political party and if the respondent feel that Obama will be re-elected, or is in favor of the healthcare bill passed, or if in favor of death penalty?

Based on table 4 below I came to the conclusion that handedness does not affect if the respondents are in favor of the death penalty or not. Handedness also does not affect how much water people drink. All three of the conditions or factors are independent of each other. An ambidextrous person doesn't approve of the death penalty or drink 64 ounces of water because of their handedness, the factors are independent as shown in the table below. Table 4: Is there a relationship between handedness and if the respondents are in favor of death penalty or how much water they drink?

In my sample of 50 random people only 7 of them changed their party afliation. Three

of the people that changed over to the tea party were democrats and the other four were republicans. The vast majority, the other 43, didn't change their party afliation. So it doesn't really matter if your democrat or republican that won't really affect if you want to change over to the tea party. The factors are mutually exclusive. It's all on the table below. Table 5: Do more democrats or republicans change party afliation to the tea party?

Discussion I feel that my hypothesis was correct for some of the questions, but not for all of the

questions. My hypothesis of certain variables, like gender, would affect certain outcomes was true. The results were either independent, dependent, or mutually exclusive. That's why I got results that I have. Before I did this study I wasn't really thinking about dependent or exclusive events, but towards the end it helped me realize how I was getting my results. I can't really compare my data to others because I haven't seen anyone's results except my own. My new understanding of the questions is that the results vary on the randomness of the data and the exclusivity or independence of the data. My next step would probably be to make my sample bigger to see if this data would follow the empirical rule. Appendix Most of my conclusions came from the tables that I made by hand I didn't really use TC stats to make histograms or box plots because I wasn't sure how to do them for these data sets. However, I did nd the average for the second question between gender and gross income. I added all the income for the males then I divided by 26 because that's how many males there are in my sample. Then I added all the income of the women and then I divided by 24 because that's how many women are in my sample. That's how I found the average for the incomes. I didn't really do more work than that so I can't show my work here. Most of my work shown as the tables that I made.