Students of Hiawatha Prefer a Movie that makes them Laugh
Chelsea Thompson, Chelsea Swanson, Berenice Weisel, Erin Gernon
April 13, 2008
Once upon a time, on a rainy day in February, there was a severe problem. People at a local high school were failing to communicate. Thankfully, a magical team of investigators (Berenice Weisel, Chelsea Thompson, Erin Gernon, and Chelsea Swanson), saved the day by one simple and ideal task. A school-wide survey went out among the masses, and the results were stupefying. The students at Hiawatha High School were very cooperative and because of them, the community can benefit from an accurate database describing the attitudes of high school students towards movies, actors, and genres. Hollywood has long dominated the visual and auditory senses of people all over the world. The group has focused their research efforts on the small community of Hiawatha High School. While everyone loves movies, we all have different tastes and preferences as shown through the survey. In the questionnaire, the group of researchers asked specific questions of students. Students relayed their favorite movie, their favorite actor, their favorite actress, their favorite movie genre, and whether they preferred to watch movies at home or in the theater.
The journey into writing tables began with a spread of questions, or as they are called in a Computer Applications class, "queries". Once the study began, results came flying in! 112 Hiawatha High School students were interviewed and the study found what they said about their favorite movies to be very intriguing. There were 24 freshmen, 24 sophomores, 26 juniors, and 38 seniors interviewed. Out of the 112 HHS students, 41 were males, and the rest (71) were female. The most students interviewed in the survey were senior girls, this comes to no surprise because 3/4 of the cheery research group are senior girls.
24 sophomores were interviewed about their favorite movies, and it turns out, that there is a tie in favorite genre. Sophomores prefer comedy as much as they prefer romantic comedy. The sophomore class sure does enjoy movies. When asked whether students preferred watching movies at home or in the theater, different grades produced different answers. 42% of the freshmen replied that they enjoyed movie watching at home and in the theater equally. All other grades overwhelmingly preferred watching movies at home. 54% of sophomores, 69% of juniors, and 71% of seniors surveyed like to watch the intricate plots of Hollywood's imagination unfold in the comfort of their own home. Out of 41 boys surveyed, 17 chose Jessica Alba as their favorite actress. 11 of those seventeen were upperclassmen.
The group decided to compare their movie database with other databases from the class, including a sports database, an attraction database, a shopping database, and a favorite candy colors database. Only forty-six students at HHS took both the movie survey and the sports survey. Of those forty-six, just three people chose Kiera Knightly as their favorite actress and Babe Ruth as their favorite baseball player. All three were girls. Seventeen boys answered that their favorite actress was Jessica Alba. Of those seventeen, ten were also surveyed about the traits of attraction. 9 out of the 10 boys preferred brown hair: Alba's own haircolor.When the movie and shopping databases were compared, twelve people who go shopping in St. Joseph, Missouri also like going to the theater. Most of the twelve are sophmores.Out of the 38 students who prefer to indulge in blue M&M's, only a mere 6% prefer to watch movies in the theater, where they can have easy access to their favorite M&M's coated with a thin, blue candy shell. A surprising 18% enjoy watching movies both in the comfort of their own homes as well as in the movie theater. 58% of those surveyed had no preference.
As you can see, the results of this Hiawatha High School survey are quite interesting. Students are interacting like chemical combustions! There are random bouts of speaking going on that even the toughest marine couldn't quell. The questions have made it much easier for them to know each other, and they have all learned quite a bit about their classmates.
