Data Handling Project
Introduction:
I am going to be investigating the height, weight, gender and age/year group of pupils from Mayfield High School, the name of the school has been made up but the data is from a real school. I have randomly selected my data and I have put it in a spreadsheet, I have only looked at years 7, 9 and 11, this will give me a lot less data and should give me some varied results. I am investigating height and weight because the data is quantitive data therefore I can do averages and graphs. The data I am using is secondary data, this means that someone else has collected the data, the advantage of this is that it has saved me a lot of time but the disadvantage is that there could be some anomalies, if the data I select has an anomaly then I will just select the next piece of data, if I use the piece of data with the anomaly then it would affect all my results so I won’t use it.
