Hypothesis: Students who watch less television perform better

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Data handling: Mayfield High School

Aim: The broad context of this project is based on the 'Data Handling' part of my mathematics course. My objective is to create a hypothesis related to the students in Mayfield high school and use their data to prove or disprove my hypothesis to a certain extent.

Hypothesis: Students who watch less television perform better

Justification: It is known that television has more negative effects on the studies of students than positive effects.

* T.V takes up a lot of time which means that the students will study less.

* People tend to watch movies or series rather than documentaries or educational TV programmes. This means that usually watching T.V is waste of time in terms of learning.

* T.V can influence people in negative ways. Especially teenagers who are in school.

* T.V damages brain cells brain cells because you usually do not think when watching television. (more scientific proof)

Using the internet, I will collect secondary data which has been already been collected from Mayfield High School. The data that I have retrieved has a list of 1183 students. This number is too high,