Extra Curricular Activities and Its Effects on Drug and Alcohol Use
My hypothesis:
I believe that extra-curricular activities have an effect on teenage drug and alcohol use. I feel that the more extra-curricular activities people are involved in, whether those activities are clubs, sports, dance, hanging out with friends, community service, etc. that those people are less likely to use drugs and alcohol. However, the people who are not really involved in extra-curricular activities are more likely to use drugs and alcohol. The more activities and less free times a person has in their day, I believe affects whether or not they are going to experiment and use drugs or alcohol. If a person is busy with work, friends, clubs and, school their priorities are more in order and they do not have much leisure time, therefore, they are more likely to stay away from addictive substances. If a person has more free time in their day, they are more likely to use drugs and alcohol and experiment with them considering there is nothing else to occupy their time and they have the time to partake in these illicit activities.
Sampling plan:
It is impossible to sample every student in East Islip High School, therefore I surveyed 100 students from the school for my final survey. I broke it up into groups of 25 students per grade. I surveyed 25 students from the 9th grade student body, 25 students from the 10th grade student body, 25 students from the 11th grade student body, and 25 students from the 12th grade student body. Since 25 can not be split evenly to survey between males and females, I survey either 13 males and 12 females or 12 males and 13 females to keep things predominantly equal for surveying purposes. I distributed the survey to many different social groups and tried not to stay within one social group. This way there would be a wide variety of answers and not just the same answers coming from the same type of group. This I hoped would aide in helping to prove my hypothesis that I was sampling. I also knew it would
I believe that extra-curricular activities have an effect on teenage drug and alcohol use. I feel that the more extra-curricular activities people are involved in, whether those activities are clubs, sports, dance, hanging out with friends, community service, etc. that those people are less likely to use drugs and alcohol. However, the people who are not really involved in extra-curricular activities are more likely to use drugs and alcohol. The more activities and less free times a person has in their day, I believe affects whether or not they are going to experiment and use drugs or alcohol. If a person is busy with work, friends, clubs and, school their priorities are more in order and they do not have much leisure time, therefore, they are more likely to stay away from addictive substances. If a person has more free time in their day, they are more likely to use drugs and alcohol and experiment with them considering there is nothing else to occupy their time and they have the time to partake in these illicit activities.
Sampling plan:
It is impossible to sample every student in East Islip High School, therefore I surveyed 100 students from the school for my final survey. I broke it up into groups of 25 students per grade. I surveyed 25 students from the 9th grade student body, 25 students from the 10th grade student body, 25 students from the 11th grade student body, and 25 students from the 12th grade student body. Since 25 can not be split evenly to survey between males and females, I survey either 13 males and 12 females or 12 males and 13 females to keep things predominantly equal for surveying purposes. I distributed the survey to many different social groups and tried not to stay within one social group. This way there would be a wide variety of answers and not just the same answers coming from the same type of group. This I hoped would aide in helping to prove my hypothesis that I was sampling. I also knew it would