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Education Poll

 Carlos Aguirre

Khanh Doan
Cameron Howard

Mason Galeazzo

1. Do you know what the 2010 Elections are about?

A. Yes

B. No

C. Huh?

2. What is your opinion on Obama's 2010 Education Speech?

A. Didn't watch it

B. Liked it

C. Disliked it

3. Do you think Education funding should

A. Stay the same

B. Be increased

C. Be decreased

4. Do you have plans on going to higher education?

A. Yes

B. No

C. Maybe

5. Who is the Superintendent of higher education?

A. Dr. McELYea

B. Horne

C. McCain

D. Obama  

Graphs.



Sex	Grade	Honors/Not
M-52	(9)30	Honors : 51
F-48	(10)22	Regular: 49
	(11)21
	(12)27

Q1         Q2         Q3         Q4        Q5 a. 35 a. 51 a. 21 a. 71 a.  33 b. 46 b. 29 b. 64 b. 13 b. 55 c. 19 c. 20 c. 15 c. 16 c.   4 d.   8

The polls Judging from the graph, a lot of students have no clue what the 2010 election was about. Since we poll both honors and regular kids equally, there are not a lot honors kids that knew about it as well. According to the graph on question 2, more than half the students did not watch the obama speech. They either do not care about the speech about an issue that is impacting their lives or their parents do not like Obama. For those who did watch it, it was almost even on those who liked it and those who disliked it. It's ironic that the people who did not watch the speech did not care for the issue of education yet more than 60 percent of the school wanted to raise funding for education. It was pretty universal that many students want to go to a higher education after high school. Now many people are not informed in who the superintendent of education in DVUSD. Many people chose Horne or Dr McElyea because they know McCain and Obama are not the superintendent. To Achieve Randomness

To have a randomize poll, we had to poll people we do not know. This helps because we would receive an unknown outcome. If we pick people we know to answer the poll, it would not be random because we know the person and what they are going to pick . The poll would not have been accurate. We tried to poll individuals rather than groups of people. People would listen to their peers and agree with them on every answer. We tried to to keep an even amount of girls, boys, and class from 9th graders to 12th graders. Error? Our poll was not perfect. When we were polling students, we tend to find more kids who were in an honors class than a regular  class. Since most kids in an honors class are liberal, we had to keep polling people will we have more regular class students. We had many errors coming out of question 5. The first error was that we had Obama and McCain as options.There could be students that are choosing them as a joke to their friends. The second problem is the wording of the question. Many students did not know if we were asking for the superintendent of DVUSD or Arizona. Another problem with our poll is that some members of our group accidentally gave the students the questions with the answer on them. This could change people's mind on some of the answers such as question 1.