David,+Olivia,+Eidalis,+Abigail

Big Picture Q: What makes people happy?
==Specific Q: Among grade, friends, family, and leisure activity, which influences a student's happiness the most? ==

**Research Plan**
1. We will give out surveys to people containing a list of various activities. 2. Organize the survey results into a data table and visual chart. 3. Analyze the data and see how gender and nationality affected one's happiness.
 * The survey will require them to fill out their gender, grade, and nationality.
 * They will have to rate each of the activities on the survey from 1-10 (1 meaning it makes them very unhappy and 10 meaning it makes them extremely happy).

**Hypothesis:**
Relationship with friends will influence a student's happiness the most for both genders and nationality. (http://stress.about.com/od/relationships/qt/friendship.htm)

**Why this hypothesis?**
I came up with this hypothesis based on research and background knowledge. First, the article from about.com (above) showed that friendship plays a big role in people's happiness, which is why we should maintain a good relationship with friends. Second, I also know from experience that fighting with friends can get people awfully depressed but also hanging out with friends can resolve people's misery.

**Potential Flaws**
1. Happiness is a very vague emotion that does not have a fine definition nor clear lines. This could make our experiment very inconstant. 2. Happiness can also be very easily influenced by recent happenings like getting a bad grade on a test or not getting enough sleep. 3. Students could fill out the survey carelessly. 4. The survey would not be very reliable as it represents only a part of the whole population and gender.

__ **Links-** __


 * Olivia: [|Gender, Family and Happiness]**
 * [|With age comes happiness, University of Chicago study shows]**


 * Eidalis:**
 * [|What really makes us happy?]**
 * [|How Positive Psychology Can Increase Your Happiness]**

[|Psychologists now know what makes people happy] [|What Causes Happiness?]
 * Abby-**

This article is about factors that influence happiness the most.
 * David Kim - Articles Summary**

=[|Research Paper]=

How Many People Surveyed: 100 Grade Level of Students: 10th grade Males Surveyed: 43 Females Surveyed: 57 Boys: Total - 1,094; Average - 6.36 Girls - Total - 1437; Average - 6.30 Boys: total - 1,777; Average - 5.19 Grils: Total - 2,520; Average - 7.36 Boys: Total; - 901; Average - 6.98 Girls: Total - 1,406; Average - 8.22 Boys: Total - 1,382; Average - 6.42 Girls: Total - 1,661; Average - 5.82
 * Basic Data (ISA Students):**
 * Survey Data (ISA Students):**
 * EDUCATION *Use the average score for the bar graph!***
 * FRIENDS**
 * FAMILY**
 * LEISURE ACTIVITY**


 * GRAPHED DATA:**
 * International School of the Americas**

How Many People Surveyed: 50 Males Surveyed: 30 Females Surveyed: 20
 * Basic Data (KIS Students):**
 * Survey Data (KIS Students):**

Boys: Total - 364; Average -7.28 Girls - Total - 394; Average - 7.88 Boys: total - 344; Average - 6.88 Grils: Total -324; Average - 6.48 Boys: Total; - 324; Average - 6.48 Girls: Total - 364; Average - 7.28 Boys: Total - 401; Average - 8.02 Girls: Total - 355; Average - 7.1
 * EDUCATION**
 * FRIENDS**
 * LEISURE ACTIVITY**



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