7-1 Debriefing Technology Usage Statistics

Here is a link to all the data I collected; I created a survey for this assignment.  I initially sent it to family and friends and asked them to send it onto anyone they thought might answer it.  I also sent it to my homeroom students and one of my science classes so I could get some Generation @ responses.  I must admit, I have no idea what to do with this data, which is exactly how I feel about all the test data we collect at school.

I did average all the responses and came up with this graph...

I found this interesting because I assumed that the older generations would have more average calls per week, but found that all generations call and receive about the same amount from friends per week.
I also assumed that the younger generations would have more devices, I'm wondering if my students didn't understand the question and that I should have provided examples.
I also put this data into TimeToast, but don't really see it as helpful as I had hoped.  I think the overall data presents a clearer picture, but I couldn't figure out how to get it into a timeline.  After working with all this data, I remember why I didn't do that well in statistics, although at least this data is relevant, I just have no idea what to do with it.

I surveyed 116 people:

The generation labels stirred some conversation.  My Aunt was upset to be labeled the Silent Generation, as she was pretty involved in politics and knew others from her generation who stirred the pot as well.  I also heard from some people who thought they fell in the Me Generation, which they thought fell between the Baby Boomers and Generation X.  I also thought it was quite funny that several of my students didn't understand the question, I guess I should discuss that in social studies...

I also wish I could have created more pie charts with all the data and then separated by generation.  Once I started looking at the charts, I realized I should have had people choose ranges instead of inputting their own numbers.  In order to organize all the data, I had to use formulas, which was fun.  I then put all these results into the first sheet.  Unfortunately, I don't know where to go from here.

  

Not surprising in this day and age, a majority of the people surveyed find their news from the internet while almost half use a mixture of both seeking it out and having it come to them.

One outlier was in the Generation @ under emails received, over 1000.  It seems that more of that generation text, so I'm curious as to whether or not this number is accurate.  Also, there was a Baby Boomer who receives between 500-1000 emails per week and one who receives over 1000.  My guess, with the population I surveyed that those are either administrators or technology integrators.

One of the most surprising graphs, relates to the number of devices each generation uses on a daily basis.  I expected the younger generations to have more, but when I compared them all, I was startled by the number of Baby Boomers who have multiple devices.  I guess I expected one or two (computer and phone) but my data proved otherwise.