Question

The Dean of Students at Bruin State University is concerned about the number of students who stay up all night playing Fortnite. She has her trusty colleagues in the Department of Sociology investigate the problem. They learn that students who play Fortnite tend to be friends with other Fortnite players.

1. What are three possible explanations for this finding? Describe each one.

2. What kind of data would you need to decide between possible explanations?

Answer 1

EXPLANATIONS:

I) they may discuss about the game in the school.

ii) they may get competitive about the game and want to see who own more matches than the other one in one night

iii) one may first played the game and told the other one about it, and the other one got addicted to it too.

DATA:

i) we may ask the student whether he/she discuss about the game with anyone in the school, if yes then how many.

ii) as it could a team game so, we can collect the data on whether he/she plays alone or with someone else. it'd a binary data

iii) after knowing that a student plays fornite,we may ask the question that,whether he/she told his/her friend about it who didn't play it earlier? if yes,how many.