Campaign Guidelines – Stress/Chill

1. The Issue

People report being more and more stressed everyday. This trend now extends beyond adults, to children and teenagers as well. To understand what makes you feel stressed, some important questions to ask are:

a) What factors affect your stress/chill level?

b) Do different personality types have different things that make them happy/sad?

c) Do you like to be alone or with people?

d) Do you think that your stress/chill level is a function of your environment?

2. Objectives

Upon completing this campaign, you will have compared groups and gained an understanding of variability within and between groups. You will learn how to a)conduct and use permutations to model variability, b)perform informal inference, and c)do simulations to make predictions.

3. Survey Questions

Use a random number generator to generate two random times a day for the next 5 days, including a weekend if possible. If a time falls within the school day, it is up to your teacher to use this time or not.

Note: Enter data only for the activities in which you participated.

Prompt	Variable	Data Type
Take a photo of what you are doing right now.	photo	photo
How stressed are you feeling right now? (3 is very stressed, 0 is not stressed at all)	level	integer
How many people are you with (not counting yourself) up to 107,282?	howmanypeople	integer
Who are you with? -alone -friends -family -friends and family -classmates -teacher -teacher and classmates -strangers	who	categorical
Where are you? -school -work -home -public place -others’ house -commuting	where	categorical
Why are you here (in one word)?	why	text
AUTOMATIC	location	lat, long
AUTOMATIC	time	time
AUTOMATIC	date	date

When? Surveys are taken two to three times per day at predetermined, randomly selected times.

How Long? About two weeks. Ideally, two of these days include a weekend.

4. Motivation

It's important to remember that you must keep collecting data.

Answer the folloiwing in your IDS Journal: 100. What is your stress/chill level in the evening versus morning? 100. Does it change everyday? How about during the weekend?

5. Technical Analysis

You will be using RStudio.

6. Guiding Questions

a) What’s my typical stress/chill level and how does it compare to whole class?

b) Do my stress/chill levels vary by weekday or weekend, or by type of people I am with?

d) Under which conditions is my stress/chill level affected?

7. Report

Complete the What Stresses Us? Practicum. Using the data analysis and RStudio skills that you've learned in this unit, analyze your stress/chill data.