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Family Income and Grades

by David Haddad Posted on October 2, 2011

The purpose of my Research design is to see how family income will affect a student’s grades.

The variables I am dealing with are family income, student’s grades, genes, and background influences.

The independent variable is the student grades while the dependant variable is the family’s income. The confounding variables are genetic intelligence and background influences.

I would conduct my study using Correlational Design and for my research method I would give tests to students with high family incomes and give tests to students with low family incomes.

My hypothesis is that students with higher family incomes will score higher on tests than students with low family incomes.

The benefit from this study could be do provide financial aid to families with lower family incomes in order to allow their children to do better in school. If they receive the same education as the students with higher family incomes than they will have a better oppurtunity to score higher on tests.

The most difficult part of this experiment is to get people to take the test considering the fact that people do not take enjoy taking tests if they don’t have to.

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My life so far…

by David Haddad Posted on September 17, 2011

My name is David Haddad and this is my first semester here at Baruch and I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. My hobby is playing ping pong and Wii and as of now I don’t have a major yet. I am not involved in any student organizations and my favorite class thus far has been Psychology believe it or not because it is extremely interesting. A cool link to the top ten ping pong shots can be found below http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VocFf_WJOA

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