AP Stat Project Results 2004

AP Stat Project Results 2007

1. According to the radar machine on 9W, near Fort Lee High School, the proportion of drivers speeding is equal in the daytime and nighttime. The average speed in both day and night was approximately 34 MPH, in the 25 MPH zone.

2. Students prefer to sit in desks that consist of a separate table and chair, as compared to an attached table and chair.

3. Only 17% of students were able to successfully identify a Chinese student’s ethnicity. 30% incorrectly identified the student as Korean.

4. 40% of male students and 20% of female students were willing to “look up” when they passed by a student sitting on the floor and “looking up”.

5. 48% of students were willing to lie by saying they heard a ring tone, when in fact none was played. The incentive for lying was receiving a piece of candy if they could hear the tone.

6. In a blind taste test in which both cups contained Sprite, only 25% of the students were courageous enough to say that both cups contained Sprite, when asked, “Which cup contains Sprite?”

7. When a random student was handed a pocketbook in the hall “to hold for a second”, 38% were willing to give the pocketbook to a boy who obviously was not the girl who originally handed the pocketbook over.

8. Only 44% of students were willing to say “thank you” when someone held the door for them.

9. One-fourth of the students were able to identify that the picture of Mark Twian was not that of a President.

10. A whooping 24 of 25 students were willing to tie a girls shoelace in the hall when asked, when the girls had an armful of books. 20 of 25 were willing to do so for a male student.

11. Only 26% of people were willing to tell a person they were talking to who had their teeth smeared with food, that they had food in/on their teeth.

12. When given an equal opportunity to put their shoes on, there was no correlation between the person’s dominate side and the shoe they chose first.