Does your consumption of caffeine and or energy drinks affect your GPA?

Group 9

EDT 180D

Gary Lewallen

April 18, 2018

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Introduction

Group 9 decided to understand the research question of, “Does your consumption of

caffeine and or energy drinks affect your GPA?” During the time frame provided in class

group 9 created a list of questions for a survey in Google Docs Form and after a couple of

days our group received 154 responses to our questions which included:

Survey Questions

 What year of study are you currently?

 What is your gender?

 In which college are you enrolled?

 What is your preferred caffeine source?

 How many hours do you work outside of school each week?

 How many ounces of caffeine do you consume within a typical 24 hour period?

 What are your overall GPA at the end of Fall semester 2017?
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Class
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Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior

Graph one, shows the labels (freshman, sophomore, Junior, Senior) on the bottom

axis. Freshman bar shown in blue is ranked the highest most answered class at 89

freshman students. The second highest class are the sophomore bar shown in orange with

35 students who answered. The third highest class are the juniors bar shown in the grey

with 19 students responded. The fourth rank one are the seniors bar shown in the yellow

with 6 student’s responding.

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Gender
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Female Male Other Prefer not to answer

Graph two, shows the labels (Female, Male, Other, and Prefer not to answer) on

the bottom axis. The gender role of 118 female had answer our survey questions which is

higher than the role of a male with had about 31 who had answered our survey questions.

We had a third and fourth opinion that we labeled, “Other” and “Prefer not to answer”

because we felt it was reasonable to respect the role of gender equality. The results of

these two had “other” at zero and “prefer not to answer” at two responses.
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COLLEGE

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Graph three, is a label graphed with the different types of colleges that are

available on campus and for the person who is answering the questions it gives them the

opportunity to represent their college of field they’re studying and it gives us an idea on

what type of person is using a certain amount of caffeine to perform on academic

studying. The highest ranking numbers that we collected was at the “Teachers College,

Mary Lou Fulton” with 78 students who answered our survey questions and from the

“College of Liberal Arts and Sciences” we received 38 students who answered. For other

colleges their numbers were under 10 and that was “W.P. Carey School of Business with

4 responses”, Herzberger Institute for Designs and the Arts with 4”, “Honors: Barrett,

The Honors College at ASU with 7”, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass

Communication with 4”, “College of Public Service and Community Solutions with 4”,

and “School of Sustainability with 4 responses”.

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Types of Caffeine Consumed

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Coffee Tea Energy Drink No caffeine

Graph four, shows four different options that our responders seen to pick a certain

answer to understand our question for the research which we asked, “Does your

consumption of caffeine and or energy drinks affect your GPA? “. Therefore, this gives

us the data information to view what type of caffeine is being more consume to keep

students aware to either increase or decrease their performances towards their GPA. Our

prediction for our research question was that coffee or the use of energy were going to

receive the most responses and the graphs shows that our prediction was estimated

slightly correct. The most used caffeine that we collect was the use of coffee with 78

responses, Tea had 25 responses, Energy Drink had 19 responses, and 31 responses

answered no caffeine consumed.

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Hours of work during the week

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Minimum Maximum Mode Median Average

Graph five, shows the comparison between the average caffeine consumption

average hours that is consumed during the week the dramatic spike of caffeine consumed

is in the Maximum rage. The maximum range is the largest number in a set of data and

our data base has a maximum of 60. The Minimum is set to the opposite range with the

smallest number in a set of data and our data has a minimum of 0. Next is the median

which is the understanding of the middle number in a group of ordered numbers and our

data shows 6 and the Mode is the number that appears the most often within a set of

numbers and our data shows 0. Finally, the average is the value that can an existing in the

data that can help understanding the value of the same item.
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Ounces Consumed
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Minimum Maximum Mode Median Average

Graph six, shows the comparison between the Ounces consumed on the type of

caffeine that is being consumed. On the bottom of the graph shows the Minimum,

Maximum, Mode, Median, and Average. Going from left to right the Minimum is the set

of opposite range with the smallest numbers and our data shows 0. The Maximum is a set

of numbers with the largest outcome and our data shows 75. The mode is the set of

numbers that appears the most and the mode on our data shows 0. The median is the

understanding of the middle set numbers in a group of ordered numbers and our data has

an outcome of 8. Finally, the average of the value is an understanding of an existing data

form that will point out the same item and in our data shows a number of 11.
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GPA
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Minimum Maximum Mode Median Average

Graph 7, shows the comparison based off the data to show the understanding

between the Minimum, Maximum, Mode, Median, and Average. In the data that shown

the Minimum is the form that is shown from left to right and at the beginning is the

minimum which is the understanding of the set of opposite range with the smallest

numbers and our data shows 0. The maximum is a set of numbers with the largest

numbers and our data base is set to 4.02. The Mode is the set of numbers that appears

throughout the data multiple areas and our mode shows 3 times that is appearing. The

median is the middle set of numbers that helps the data to balance out and our data is set

at 3.3, and the average of the value is the existing data and our data is set at 3.24.
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Our survey question “Does your consumption of caffeine and or energy drinks

affect your GPA?” Is a research question that we took time to make a survey to collect

data and understanding if caffeine does effect a student’s GPA? The data and charts are

an understanding based off our survey questions, and the average outcome on our

predictions on which caffeine would be consumed. Looking at the data and charts the

conclusion gave reasoning to understand most college student but not all students from

the same college use the source of caffeine to beware of academic activities. Other

question that was being asked is it the consuming of alcohol plays a good part of

effecting a student’s GPA and if so how would a student react toward the negative

outcome, but other than the research question that we asked give us a clear understanding

on how many student use a certain amount of caffeine on and off campus.
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