WORDS PER MINUTE

Introduction  We wanted to test to see if number of hours on the computer or type of phone keyboard effect how many words you can type a minute  Asked how many hours the spent on the computer a day(0-1, 1-3, 3-6 hours)  Asked what kind of keyboard they had on their phone. A 1-9 number pad or a QWERTY keyboard  Had them type ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.’ as many times as they could in sixty seconds

Words per Minute Shape: Right skewed Center: Median: 57 wpm Range: (39, 93)

Normality  Not a normal distribution

WPM vs Gender Female Shape: Right skewed Center: Median 56 Range: (39, 84) More data between Q1 and Q3 Male Shape: Right skewed, gaps, one outlier Center: Median 61 Range: (45, 93)

WPM vs Time on Computer Heavy Shape: Slightly right skewed, gaps Center: Median –54 Range: (45, 93) Moderate Shape: Right Skewed Center: Median-55 Range: (39, 84) Light Shape: Symmetrical, gaps Center: Median-62.5 Range: (57, 81)

WPM vs Partner Colleen Shape: right skewed some gaps Center: Median 58.5 Range: (41, 93) Manny Shape: Slightly right skewed, gaps Center: Median 57 Range: (39, 86)

Marginal distribution

Conditional Distrubtion

Possible Errors and Bias  Are they taking any computer class  If they typed continuously or started a new line every time the completed the phrase.  If they took any classes that required a lot of typing  Spelling