School Life Survey 1 Wrap Up

School life survey 1:

Question: Are the claims of parents that social networking is harming today's generation true? How about the assumption that more "friends" really means more friends?

Hypotheses:
1. If more time is spent on social networking sites, then there will be more emphasis on social standing. (This hypothesis was just Null--no proof for or against since there was not enough data and I was attempting to use a Boolean-style approach, where Social Standing was 1 and Academic Standing 0. Came out like 2 straight lines.)
2. If more time is spent on social networking sites, then there will be less trustworthy friends.
3. If there are few friends on social networking sites, then there will be more hours spent on social networking sites.
4. If more time is spent on social networking sites, then there will be a lower weighted GPA.

These were hypotheses added on later (I made the above hypotheses on the spot as I posted my School Life Survey 1):
5. If there are more friends then there will be a lower GPA.
6. If there are more trustworthy friends then there will be less FB friends.

Data:

Hypothesis 1: Null.

Hypothesis 2:

Hypothesis 3:

Hypothesis 4:

Hypothesis 5:
(FB Friends to GPA)

(Trustworthy Friends vs. GPA)

Hypothesis 6:


Conclusion:
The data given suggests a strong negative correlation between the time spent on social networking sites and GPA. Also, there is a very slight negative correlation between the number of trustworthy friends/facebook friends and GPA. Otherwise, the data is too sparse to draw anything even semi-definitive.

Limitations/Uncertainties:
This data was taken largely from students from Mission San Jose High School in Fremont, CA. One or two points each come from Illinois and the East Coast (I do not know which points, obviously, as this was an anonymous survey, but my peers from those parts said they took the survey). Mission has a very high emphasis on academia, which leads to the relatively high amount of people who said they appreciated academic standing over social standing. Data is here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=trtorCi2YDWnRugPcM3tkdg&single=true&gid=0&output=html