Testing a Hypothesis about Male and Female Drivers
My initial thoughts on the data are that it seems that more females
are taking driving lessons than males as seen in the pie chart below.
It would also seem that as the number of 1hour lessons increases the
number of minor mistakes made decreases. Instructor B looks to be the
most popular as he is chosen the most out of the four. I am going to
state 3 hypotheses based on this data and am going to use my
mathematical knowledge to support them.
Hypothesis 1: Females make more Mistakes than Males
For this hypothesis I decided to choose 60 pieces of data from the
sheet, 30 pieces that are male and 30 that are female. I used the
random number button on my calculator and multiplied it by 240 (the
total pieces of data) this insures that the number is between 1 and
240, the number that comes up must be rounded to the nearest whole
number this number is then used to pick the relevant number from the
sheet. Once 30 pieces of data had been collected for the males and I
had not yet got 30 for the females, I continued using my calculator
until I got a number that corresponds with a female piece of data on
the sheet. Once I had 30 for each I started to refine the data.
I started by taking the 30 male pieces of data and 30 female pieces of
data and plotted them on a line graph seen below.
From the line graph I found that it was a male who made the highest
amount of mistakes but also a male who made the lowest amount of
mistakes. By looking at the graph I also found that a greater number
of females were found to be greater than that of the males.
I then proceeded to make 2 cumulative fr...
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few exceptions this shows that females overall are making more
mistakes than males.
I also did a stem and leaf diagram which shown me that most males were
making few mistakes and the bulk were in the regions of 0-20 whereas I
could see that only one females scored from 0-10 and a bulk scored
from 10-30 which is a bit greater than the range of the males
indicating that the females are making more mistakes than the males.
From this hypothesis the evidence that has been shown clearly supports
my it, but against it could be argued that on a Friday the traffic is
greater because of all the people rushing home and so the traffic
affects the amount of mistakes made. Also it could be said that maybe
its because males have had more 1 hour lessons before they took the
test which is why they make lees mistakes.
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