While the phrase “Homework takes away dreams” sounds compelling and would make for a good headline on the news, if one were to actual go and look at the data that the analysis is based off of, the viewer might be quite surprised with what they find.
The first major problem is that this data set is only recorded by one college student. Which means that this whole analysis of homework taking away sleep time is only based off the data of one person. There are times where single layer data can be useful such as specific case studies, but when someone goes out trying to convince the world that there is this evil entity trying to take way sleep, they might need a little more data sets than just one single college graphic design student. When someone spends a good amount of time in the field of research that person tends to pick up some common themes of research. One of the most important themes when it comes to gathering data for projects like this is that the more data you gather the more accurate that data is when representing a large group of people. One person can claim to be 5”11, and based on the process in which the conclusion was reached with “Homework takes away dreams” every person is now 5”11. In order for this analysis to have any credibility the researcher must gather data from much more people before drawing a conclusion.
The next giant flaw with this analysis is that the dataset does not follow the claim in more than just a couple instances. When the data shows that there is the lowest amount of slept hours, the amount of school work completed that night was barely in the top three highest amounts of school work. When a student is sleeping for 3 in a particular night and the data shows that the school work done that night isn’t even in the top two largest amounts of school work, then it kind of crumbles the argument. That shows that this student is doing many more things during the night time that might effect the amount of sleep that person gets per night. Another example of this is during the second largest amount of school work done in a night. During that specific night, the student almost gets 8 hours of sleep. There is a big emphasis drawn in this analysis to the student only getting 2 nights out of the 14 days where the data was recorded where the student gets more than 8 hours of sleep per night. How come that during the night where the second largest amount of school work done the student also is able to get almost 8 hours of sleep. The data just doesn’t correlate to the final analysis in some instances and it greatly lowers the credibility of the final conclusion by doing so.
What happens when homework invades dreams? I wish this analysis would at least attempt to answer this question with at least a shred of credibility and science.