2017

Business Statistic 1 –
Assignment 1 – Part II
LECTURER: SIENNEY LIU
NGUYEN NGOC BICH DIEP – S3654053
Table of Contents

1. Short answer question ..................................................................................................... 3

2. Articles reading/ watching ................................................................................................ 3

a. Study of Twenge ............................................................................................................................... 3

b. Is the result same to generation iGen in Vietnam? Why?................................................................ 4

3. Bibliography list ............................................................................................................... 5

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 1. Short answer question
They found the following: 5 out of 10 families own 1 motorbike(X). 3 out of 10 families own 2
motorbikes (Y). 1 out of 10 families own 3 motorbikes (Z) and 1 out of 10 families has no
motorbike (W)
Number of motorbike owned Number of families
by those families
0 1
1 5
2 3
3 1
Total 14 10
Table 1: Number of motorbike owned by family residing in Ho Chi Minh city

• The average number of motobikes in HCMC:

1𝑥5+2𝑥3+3
Mean= = 1.4
10

• From the given information, we can have the following probabilites:

5
P(X)=10 = 0.5 or 50%
3
P(Y)=10= 0.3 or 30%
1
P(Z)=10=0.1 or 10%
1
P(W)= 10= 0.1 or 10%
 Therefore, we can see there are 9 out 10 families have at least 1 motorbike.

According to value of mean, it is clearly observed that each family in HCMC has more than 1
motorbike. However, there is one family having no motorbike and there is one family having
more than 3 motorbikes, which are outliers, so it makes the average value biased. Whereas,
when calculating probabilities, we could see the proportion or probability of number of families
owning motorbikes.

2. Articles reading/ watching

a. Study of Twenge
Outcome of Dr Twenge’s study is that teenager today is growing slower. It is proved that teens
are less likely to have a driving lience, a part-time job, a date, have sex or drink alcohol
compared to the previous generations.
The reasons that cause of this phenomenon are having fewer children in families and using
smartphones too much. There are more and more families having fewer children, so parents
tend to nurture them really carefully, which makes their children relying on them more, so they
are less mature and growing slower. However, the main reason is the significant deveplopment

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of smartphones. The children depend much on smartphones and social medias instead of
playing outside or hanging out. They do not enjoy going out and they even join a party via
Snapchat. That leads to severe consequences to young generations. According to Dr Twenge
(2017), there a considerable rise in mental illness, depression, anxiety and even suicide. She
also said that those children, who spend much time on phones, would feel unhappy, and
useless.

Figure 1: The proprotion of teenagers often feel left out and lonely from 1991 to 2015, reproduced from Twenge (2017)

As can be seen from Figure 1, after 2007 – the year iPhone was released, the percentage of
teens who often feel left out and lonely increased exponentially from 2007 to 2015 and it hit
the highest unprecedented record in over 15 years, proven by hefty 33% of teenagers who feel
left out and 31% of those who often feel lonely. Thus, this is an alarming issue to young
generations and the study of Dr. Twenge is really appreciated and keeping abreast of the times.

b. Is the result same to generation iGen in Vietnam? Why?

As being known, the development of smartphones has been increasing sharply recently to all
over the world, so that Vietnam is not an exception. In accordance with Cimigo (2015), there
are 25 million mobile smartphones sold in Vietnam in 2015, and the number of social media
users, especially Facebook users, grew remarkably from 2011 to 2015, illustrated by a modest
1.4 million in 2011 to a huge 30 million in March of 2015. From these findings, it is easy to see
that the generation iGen in Vietnam is the same as the study of Dr. Twenge.

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Conformable to Luong (2014), Vietnamese young generations are always taking food pictures
before eating, they are more likely to use smartphones to interact with people and less meeting
up face-to-face to communicate. Some people have to admit that they were insecure when
going out without smartphones. Thus, we can tell that Vietnamese youth would face to health
problems such as mental illness, depression and anxiety due to spending much time on using
smartphones.

In general, growing slower in teenagers is a huge issue all over the world, so if it is conducted in
Vietnam, the result would be the same as other countries.

3. Bibliography list
Cimigo, 2015, “Online, mobile, social media in Vietnam Asia”, viewed 9 Nov. 2017,
<http://www.cimigo.com/en/news-events/online-mobile-social-media-vietnam-asia>

Donoughue, P.,2017, “Are we raising a generation of unhappy, non-resilient young

people?”,ABC News, viewed 9 Nov. 2017,
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-20/teens-smartphones-resilience-adulthood/8960618>

Luong, T.,2014, ”Smartphone addiction a growing problem”, viewed 9 Nov. 2017,

<http://vietnamnews.vn/talk-around-town/257115/smartphone-addiction-a-growing-
problem.html#v3EEXRcxhdrJp0Dy.97>

Twenge, J., 2017, “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” , The Atlantic, viewed 9 Nov.
2017,< https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-
destroyed-a-generation/534198/>