Physical Activity and Screen Time

Physical Activity and Screen Time

WALT carry out a statistical investigation following the statistical inquiry cycle.

Problem

Lily and myself (Billie) wondered how many students in room 8 balance their screen time with physical activity. We surveyed 5 girl year eights and 5 boy year eights so we would be unbiased.

Plan

Lily and myself used google forms to plan our investigation. Something I struggled with was when we had to make a question go to another page. I also struggled with the layout because I was new to google forms.

Analysis

Data

From the 20 people we surveyed 90% of them do balance the screen times and 10% don't. Of the people who said they didn't balance the screen time with physical activity here are some of the reasons why they didn't. They don't play any sport or do any outdoor activity, they can't be bothered and they don't do as much sport as gaming.  Our data shows that  90% of the people we surveyed balance their screen time by going outside sports etc…

From the 10% that said they don't balance their screen time with physical activity ,we asked  some way they could keep it balanced and they said they could do more sport and someone doesn't know what he could do.

One shows that people balance their physical activity with screen time by going outside and having restricted time on their devices.  

Conclusion

I (Billie) was a little bit unhappy with the results because I feel that the people we surveyed may have been dishonest. My recommendation for the parents/caregivers of the people that were surveyed with the answer of not balancing screen time would be to try to encourage them to go outside or to play some sport.