Problem:
Your specific assignment for this week is to select a type of quantitative data to collect from your own life. Some examples of data to collect could be:
• The number of people you see at your work place each half day.
• The number of phone calls you get in each morning and in each afternoon.
• Any other numeric type of data that are relevant to you and that typically vary between the earlier part of the day and the later part of the day.
Please divide the day into two parts: AM and PM and get the data on one of these items for each part.
In a brief paper, describe the data you are going to collect. Collect data starting today so you can have at least 20 observations (two for each day), preferably more. Provide a description of the item you collected, and a table with the data that you have collected until the date of your uploading of this Module's SLP report. [You will be using this data for the Module 5 Session Long Project as well.]
Assignment Expectations:
Collect data and create a data table.
I am going to collect observations from my backyard bird feeders. I have four feeders with different kinds of seed and every morning before I leave for work and every evening when I return, I am going to count the birds in the feeding area of the backyard. The table that I used was printed and left on the table at the back window so I could easily collect the data. The number of birds is now in the table to below. This data is now collected and presented so that I can analyze whether there are differences between the morning bird activity and the evening bird activity, and if so, whether those differences are due to chance (random) or due to different feeding patterns of the birds in my neighborhood.
Birds on Feeder
Day AM PM
1 12 8
2 11 4
3 16 2
4 9 3
5 11 4
6 6 2
7 9 6
8 4 4
9 8 0
10 6 4
11 11 5
12 8 4
13 4 2
14 4 6
15 13 3
16 8 3
17 5 2
18 2 0
19 11 7
20 5 2