Survey Project on Teenage Detachment

1. Teens with game systems show less affection towards their parents than teens without game systems.

Results 1 Hypothesis was wrong Most teens greet their parents no matter what 83% of students own a game system

2. The declination of modern parental disciplinary methods allows teens to grow apart from their families easier.

Results 2 Correct hypothesis Majority of students have strict or moderate parents instead of extremes 0% of students with very strict parents talk less than 1 hour Opposite for parents that aren’t strict at all

3. Boys are less likely to talk to their parents when they have problems than girls.

Results 3 Girls do talk with their parents more Girls answered more evenly than boys

Methodology - At first we did not know what questions to ask so we started off with easy ones like: how old are you? and what is your gender? - We did not have a single problem; they just miraculously came to us as we were writing the survey. HA - We didn’t really choose specific classes to survey. We thought that it would be better to survey upperclassmen because they would be more mature than underclassmen. - I only got one question about the survey and that was from a girl that wanted to know if her brother has a game system than it would count as her owning one herself. Another time someone over analyzed the survey and pointed out that we should have put 1-2 hours instead of 1+ hours because 1+ hours could mean anything more than 1 hour. - We have input from more juniors and seniors than underclassmen, so it will give less of an age range on the answers to the survey questions. We also interviewed 2 AP classes as well so we only had a single nonsense survey. - Economic achievement doesn’t really change how much kids talk to their parents, they can be smart and still not talk to them anymore than kids that don’t get good grades.