Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Amount of Cash in Wallet/Purse Currently V. The age at which you think will die
15
103
0
85*e^(i*2*Pi)
26
102
75
100
0 or 6 cents
88
17.00
33
1
Pi
3
100
380
90
0
88
53.00
99
20.00
90
infinity
infinity
So here we see the data collected for Cash on hand V. The age you think you will die in my physics class. This surveys question was prompted by my reading the day earlier that the human can only live a maximum of about 120 years. I wondered how long people think they are going to live? But I didn't want the data skewed from Positive and Negative type people, so instead of asking: Are you happy? (rated 0-5) or something like that, I assumed that happiness and money are closely related. By asking them how much money is in there wallet, we are able to skew the results to see if this makes them more optimistic or not. If we look at the data, we may see a correlation between the amount of money someone has on them, compared to the average age they think they will die. More money means more optimistic about how long they will live? Although the data may show this, I think we all know that More money means more Problems. We also notice the Joke-sters of the survey who put infinity and Pi and e^(i*2*Pi). This clearly reveals what type of people are taking these surveys. It was brought to my attention, that the last person to take the survey is able to read all the answers from other people who took the survey. This may skew the results.

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