9/10/14

Tonight's homework is to revise Assignment 3 by:

1. creating a table and/or a graph to illustrate the data
2. supporting any conclusions by specific referring to useful portions of the data

Optional/Extra Credit - In addition to revising Assignment 3, carry out a thorough analysis of the data for 2 other questions in the survey.

See below for models of analysis/concluding.

Students in 11AC and 12AC seem to like chicken dishes the most. Over 20 percent of all respondents listed a food explicitly incorporating chicken. Other popular favorites included pizza and pasta, each reported as a favorite food in 18 percent of surveys. If the definition of pasta is expanded to incorporate macaroni and cheese, then it is the most popular favorite food among Food Science students, with about 1 in 4 students mentioning a pasta dish as a favorite.

When asked to justify their choice of favorite food, students overwhelmingly stated that the taste of the food was the reason of the choice. Nearly two-thirds (66%) of respondents stated taste (or a similar term) as justification for their favorite food. A familiarity with the food (or cuisine) was a distant second most common reason behind a favorite - appearing in 16 percent of responses. Interestingly, about 10 percent of students reported that the fact that a food (like pasta or pizza) could be served or prepared in different ways was the reason that it was a favorite.