Dress Code Gender

This margin of error means that our sample size of 70 people will not be completely accurate when predicting data for the entire school (275 people). Instead, any true values are likely to be somewhere between 10.13% larger or 10.13% smaller than what was predicted. This implies that we can only be moderately confident in our results-- though they are close, they are not guaranteed to be accurate 100% of the time.
While analyzing the results of our survey, one clear dividing factor among those who took it stood out-- gender. On all eleven questions, there was a clear split dividing female and male students. While female students tended to have stronger, more negative opinions on the dress code, male students were more moderate. Due to the fact that we unfortunately only surveyed two students who did not wish to specify their gender, no general pattern can be seen amongst this subgroup-- there simply is not enough data.

Overall, our survey implies that the majority of female students at Bolton High School believe that the dress code is an issue that should be addressed.

Male students, on the other hand, disagree-- only 18% (compared to 67% of women) strongly believe that the dress code should be changed. This data suggests that the female and male perspectives at BHS are very different when it comes to the dress code. This information can be of use because it suggests that, if the administration ever wished to change the dress code, they could ask most female students for suggestions. Female students, after all, are the ones who are most affected by the dress code-- 47% of the girls in our survey group had previously been written up for dress code offenses, while this figure was only 11% for

boys.
Though we consider our results to be fairly accurate, there is room for error. For example, on question #9, five students stated that they do not believe the dress code should be changed. However, on question #11, when we provided a list of parts of the dress code that could be modified, only two students stuck with this initial answer-- the other three were likely given ideas that they had not previously considered which inspired them to change their answer.
When making future surveys, we should be more careful with how we phrase questions if we want them to produce more valid results. For example, if we were to include a question that was similar to #11, we could make it fill-in-the-blank instead of its current format to avoid influencing the survey group with our opinions. Additionally, we could not put a minimum value on the number of answers students could provide.