Amount of Time Spent On the Internet: Does It Affect Grades Depending on Gender?

By Chelsea Shang, Period F (Science)

The Theory

To find out if the average amount of hours spent on the computer or the Internet affected grades depending on gender.

I think that the result will be ‘Yes’ because the Internet is known to affect people negatively due to how distracting it is.

The Method After testing a class, convert the

grades to GPA and discover the mean of the hours spent for each gender.

Create a graph or chart (both if possible) and use them to find the answer.

Data The scatter plot graph was

used to see how much of a difference gender made.

The result was 0.1925, a number very close to zero.

The gender difference in GPA was only 0.3, while the time difference was 0.35.

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Outside Influence-Cons Stress, which could lead to sleep

deprivation, gradually lowers grades.

Using phones to text/surf the Internet causes anxiety from a personal obligation to stay on social networks.

Games that lower GPA over a short period of time are the more violent type (Mortal Kombat, Halo, etc.). Two titles were released for the PC.

Outside Influence-Pros Some computer/video games

increase the ability to multi-task due to that they need you to focus on more than one thing at a time.

90% of computer games have at least a bit of education and fact.

War, one very common game plot, is all about strategy. And your brain.

Conclusion

The time spent on a computer does not affect grades, because each person has a different level of tolerance for anxiety and stress, along with self-control on playing games.

Thank you for listening!