Does the amount of streaming

you do correlate with the

amount of sleep you get?

Group ID: 4
Evelyn Gutierrez, Bailey Ashworth, Jesse Reyes
Edt 180B
Lewallen
April 28th 2016

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During EDT180 we were taught many skills and all of those lead up to this research
project. In our group we decided on a topic which was intriguing and it also was making an
impact in our lives. We decided to do our research on sleep and streaming media. To further our
thoughts and questions we asked, Does the amount of streaming you do correlate with the
amount of sleep you get? There were numerous questions we asked to figure out this new
information we would contain. The first couple questions were meant to get to know the test
subject so it asked gender, year of study and if they lived on campus. The next questions got a
little more personal which asked how much sleep they got each night, and what time they went to
bed and woke up. The last section of the questions were aimed towards our research and asked if
they streamed any media at night and if so how much. The last part of the questions were most
important because that is what we were trying to correlate, the amount of sleep someone gets and
amount of media they stream before bed. The tool that we used to collect the data was in Google
Forms which eventually turned into a spreadsheet and there was a total of 147 responses.

Based off our responses we ended up with interesting information about streaming and
how it correlates with many different aspects such as sleep, gender, and even class to name a
few. Our group decided that comparing the amount of streaming to gender would be interesting
in order to find out if gender really mattered. According to our results we ended up finding out
that females on average streamed more media than males. Although one has to keep in mind that
we did only receive 33 responses from males, but we also did receive 114 responses from

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females. In order to make this a more solid result, if possible we could have asked for the survey
to be disbursed to the same amount of females and males.

When deciding to view the results of whether a student's class related to the amount of
streaming, we found out that streaming is more of a personal choice. So we decided to
demonstrate the average hours of streaming each class did. Based off of our results sophomores
streamed more media, and they were also the ones whom we received more responses from.
Interestingly, we found out that although we only received 19 responses from seniors out of the
114, they were still close enough to the average of the other classes.

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After we looked at all the personally interesting information, we got down to the final
question, Does the amount of streaming you do correlate with the amount of sleep you get?
We expected our results to demonstrate that the streaming did correlate to the amount of
streaming a person got, but our results demonstrated otherwise. Our results showed that the
people who actually watched more than 2 hours on average of streaming got an average of 6 to 7
hours of sleep. Since we cannot change personal choices, one change we could have made in
order to better analyze the effects of streaming on sleep is having to simply change our question
to, Do you go to sleep later when you stream media? I believe such question could have given
us a more precise look on the the effects of streaming.

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The first and second chart are pretty self explanatory. The first graph tell us that females
stream more at night then compared to males. While the second chart shows us that in analyzing
the classes sophomores stream the most out of the four groups. This information was not vital for
our question but rather more fun. When we took a look at our data for the third chart the results
are completely different from what we first anticipated. In the beginning we thought that media
streaming had a major effect on sleep and it deprived college students of what they need. But as
we continued to analyze the results we found that there was no true correlation with the amount
of sleep someone gets and if they stream or not. The majority of the people surveyed said that
they got 6 to 7 hours of sleep and that came from both the streamers and not. Also all the
amounts of sleep was jumbled up with both groups as well. If you look at the third chart it shows
close similarities to each group of hours spent sleeping and no clear distinction between them. So
by looking at our chart it was impossible to decide if streaming does affect your sleep or it could
be something as simple as being in college. Some other questions that came to mind correlated to

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the genre of whatever it is the streamer is watching. So, if you watch a two hour horror film will
that delay your sleep even more because you are too scared to close your eyes? Or maybe if
youre watching something boring, you fall right to sleep. We are now interested in what genres
are best to watch just before you sleep and see how the sleep is affected. If we had the chance to
do it again we would definitely add more questions involving streaming media genres and even
social media usage. Another aspect we would change and actually just delete from our survey is
the time they got up and went to bed. Because in the end it truly did not matter about those times
rather than just the initial question of how much sleep they get. In conclusion our survey did not
truly have a clear answer if streaming at night affects the amount of hours you sleep. Hopefully
with further knowledge and more intense question we could have a better understanding of this.