The Spread Of Disease

Year 11 Survey

What we did…

Hypothesis: To identify the spread of disease in a secondary school and to find whether transport, gender and sociability affect the rate at which disease spreads

Prediction: Those who take the bus and come in contact with more people are more likely to spread disease. Males and females will have similar results

Randomly chosen class (Year 11) Sample: 27 Students Mixture of genders Surveyed their movements and actions

The Participants

Of the 27 surveyed the majority of the class were female

The group sampled, as expected, were mostly 15 year olds since most of the academic year has not yet passed

Age 15 – 6

Age 16 – 4

Age 15 – 9

Age 16 – 8

Male – 10

Female – 17

Distance Travelled

It was unexpected that on average the participants travelled similar distances both on weekdays and weekends

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Distance Travelled (continued)

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The spread of the quartiles is very similar with the median almost exactly the same

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Transport

Using the data from before we have understood that the students are more likely to contract diseases than average seeing as they use modes of transport that

can carry multiple people therefore we can assume it is easier for the contingent to spread

Car

Bicycle

Walking

Taxi

Bus

Contact

From this data we have identified that males, considering the original proportion of males to

females, come into contact with more people than females. We can therefore infer that males are more

likely to contract various diseases

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Weekend

Vaccinations

Males Treatment

Number

Females Treatment

Number

Yes 2 Yes 4No 8 No 13Overall considering the distances travelled, the number

of people they come into with and whether they have had a vaccination we conclude from the evidence we have collected that MALES are more likely at risk of

catching a disease

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Improvements & Constraints

Improvements Survey a larger

sample

Compared results in more detail using advanced programs and methods

Constraints Time limit

The restrictions of the questionnaire

The follow up…

Using the data we have gathered we hope to compare the results of a secondary

school to those of a primary school

After this we would like to publish a guide on how to minimize the risk of spreading disease whilst considering other factors

such as practicality, economic issues and environmental issues