Why Research Teen Drug Use?
As teens, the four of us are surrounded by drug culture, especially in the midst of the heroin epidemic in New Hampshire. There is numerous data provided by reliable government organizations that will support our research, which we can use to make our own visuals and make sense of the data within our group. The topic is important for the reason that it affects a large percentage of the population, and endangers the lives of those who would be otherwise be healthy, if not for unfortunate habits.
A Description of the Data We Found and Why It's Valuable
Our data comes from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The study is titled United States High School Youth Risk Behavior Study, 2015 and includes data on teen drug and alcohol use, as well as various other high-risk behavior.
A Visualization of Our Data
Where We Plan to Go With Our Study
Given that teen drug use is such a broad category, we have a broad range of values to explore. The data obtained from United States High School Youth Risk Behavior Study, 2015 may allow us to make correlations between a range of high-risk behavior and drug use habits, and as a result, make assumptions about the most prevalent risk factors.
Research Question:
Is there a correlation between gender, age, and high-risk behavior?
Could you somehow tie this into the home/personal lives of teenagers? Are teens getting into drugs because they are used to living with it at home? Or are there other reasons?
ReplyDeleteThis will be really interesting data to compare to our subset of humans here at ASP. Are we different than the population at large when it comes to this issue?
ReplyDeleteHow has the use of drugs changed over time in New Hampshire? Has there been an increase in drug usage over the last 50 years or a decrease?
ReplyDeleteHow has the use of drugs changed over time in New Hampshire? Has there been an increase in drug usage over the last 50 years or a decrease?
ReplyDeleteIs there a difference of drug use through out the state? (i.e is heroin used more in northern NH than southern ). Also, for the graph, it is hard to read the x axis.
ReplyDeleteIs there a difference of drug use through out the state? (i.e is heroin used more in northern NH than southern ). Also, for the graph, it is hard to read the x axis.
ReplyDeleteThe graph is a little difficult to decipher because I can't tell what each of the bars mean. Maybe if the whole question correlating to each bar was visible it would make more sense.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with the fact that teen drug use is a broad category. Maybe you could just narrow it down to heroine or weed or something like that. If not you could always make it so it was a category of drugs. I'm interested in seeing where you guys go with this data.
ReplyDeleteIt would be interested to compare two or three different types of drug use and one kind of high risk behavior (unless it's just high risk behavior, that would be interesting too).
ReplyDeleteAdding a bit of clarity to the graph and making the columns easier to read would be helpful. Also, how would this information be helpful? What benefits could one draw from obtaining this information?
ReplyDeleteI would also be interested to see whether the data describes a general increase or decrease in drug use, what types of drug this change is noticed in, and whether this affected the current heroin problem. Additionally, how will you account for the bias generated by teens not caring to take this questionnaire seriously and answer the questions truthfully for this data set.
ReplyDeleteHow are you going to use this data to compare age with high risk behavior when the data is geared toward high school students?
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