Research Question: Do Century College students find that their Donkey Kong game play has decreased over time.
Hypothesis: Yes, we do believe it has decreased.
1)How old are you?
A)16 or younger
B)17-19
C)20-22
D)23-25
E)26-29
F)30 or older
2)What is your Gender?
Male
Female
3) Do you currently have a significant other(boyfriend, girlfriend,spouse)?
Yes
No
4)Do you have a job?
A)No
B)I work part-time (less then 35 hours a week)
C) I work full-time (more then 35 hours a week)
5)On average, How many hours a week do you play video games?
A)I don't Play Video games
B)1-2 hours
C)2-4 hours
D)5+ hours
6)Have you ever played Donkey Kong?
Yes
No
7)Which of the following gaming systems do you play the most?
A)Xbox 360/ Xbox one
B)PlayStation 3/PlayStation 4
C)Wii/Wii U
D)Nintendo DS/SP
E)PC
F) PS Vita
G) Other
H)I don't play video games
8)Have you played Donkey Kong on any of the game systems listed above?
Yes
No
9)Do you think Donkey Kong is just as popular as Mario?(Circle one)
strongly disagree 1 2 3 4 5 strongly agree
10)Have you seen any Donkey Kong advertisements or merchandise in the last year?
Yes
No
Results
We Surveyed 143 Century College Students
We ended up surveying 72 females and 71 males
Ages Ranges of the people surveyed
Relationship status of the people surveyed
If they have a job and if so, is it Part-time(under 35 hours) or Full-time(over 35 hours).
Amount of time each week spent playing video Games
If they Have ever Played Donkey Kong
Most proffered game system
If they have played Donkey Kong on newer consoles
If they have seen advertisements
Rating popularity of Donkey Kong compared to Mario on a 1-5 scale
Correlations
In this correlation I tried to see if there was a bias from either guys or girls towards Donkey Kong. Since Donkey Kong is seen as a more masculine character I thought that girls might not favor him as much. But when i compared the ratings of Donkey Kong from Girls to the ratings of guys I found that they are very similar.
In this correlation I compared the percentage of people who played and didn't play Donkey Kong with the amount of time they currently spend each week playing video games. In our data, we found that among the people that had never played Donkey Kong, 65% of them don't play video games. We also found that among the people who had played Donkey Kong previously, 33% of them don't currently play video games.
For this correlation, we where trying to determine wether the amount of time someone works impacts the amount of time they play video games. As you can tell, those who d not have jobs are less likely to not play video games and they are more likely to play video games for longer periods of time.
Also in this correlation we found that only 10% of the fulltime workers played 5 or more hours a week of video games. And for part time workers, only 11% of them played more than 5 hours a week. But for non workers, 26% played 5 or more.
We also found that there where 3 people who don't have a job, aren't in a relationship, and don't play video games.
We tried to figure out wether or not having a significant other impacts the amount of times playing video games
We split the people up in catagories based on which game system they prefered. Than we compared there responses to the question of wether or not they have played Donkey Kong on any of the new generation consoles. The purpose was to try to determine if the popularity of donkey kong has dropped simply because people do not have nintendo game systems. As you can see in the graph, there are a lot more xbox users than wii, wii u, DS, and SP players combined.
For all of those that said they had not played Donkey Kong on a new Generation console, I divided those respondents up by age
Among The people who said that they had played Donkey kong on a new generation system, 31.15% of them answered earlier that they do not play video games. While they could have played it on a special occasion, it still could have impacted the data because they might not have any idea what system they played on. They might have just remembered playing it.
Conclusion
Problems