Relationship between the Height and Weight of Students in Year 11 of Different Genders

Relationship between the Height and Weight of Students in Year 11 of Different Genders

The aim of this coursework is to find if there is a relationship

between the height and weight of students in year 11 of different

genders, and to see if taller, or older, or students who watch too

much T.V are generally heavier or lighter. I am doing this

investigation because I have a brother in Year 10 who is fat, short,

heavy and watches too much T.V and I am intrigued by this to see if

all female students in year 11 are like that or whether they are

heavier or lighter if they are shorter, or watch too much T.V. I will

gather the required information from the Mayfield high school data

book provided by the teacher. I could go on the internet and collect

the data but it might not have been updated for some time so it might

be out of date. I couldn’t have gone to the school office because they

don’t have information of height and weight. I could do a survey, but

the problem with this is that it is very time consuming and it is

disruptive in the school If I wasn’t doing this investigation, I would

probably have been doing something else for example to see if students

who watch too much T.V have a higher I.Q, but due to the shortage of

time and the way the school timetables are set out, I figured that I

would not have the time needed in order to complete this task in the

appropriate way.

Some factors which may have caused me a problem if I did choose these

hypothesis are, that firstly, some data in the booklet might be wrong

or missing (e.g. someone might weigh 200k.g) and I wouldn’t know how

much they really weigh. Also, by looking at the time allotted to me

for completing the investigation I thought that the best investigation

to do was to go for my second option which was to use the Mayfield

data book to gather the information, my first option was to measure