Does drinking coffee benefit academic

performance?Lauren Christofis, Charlene Kinsey, and

Morgan Smith

Participants❖ 30 participants

➢ 15 female➢ 15 male

Those Who Said Yes❖ “Yes”

➢ Female: 9/15=60%

➢ Male: 5/15=33%

Total: 14/30= 46.5%

Do you drink other caffeinated drinks?Those who answered yes to coffee:

1. Pop- 3 people2. Energy drinks- 4 people3. Tea- 4 people

Those who answered no to coffee:

1. Pop- 13 people 2. Energy drinks- 2 people3. Tea- 0 people

GPA for those who drink coffee vs. those who do notThose who drink coffee:

● 4.0-3.5: 7 people● 3.4-3.0: 3 people● 2.9-2.5: 4 people

Those who do not drink coffee:● 4.0-3.5: 3 people● 3.4-3.0: 5 people● 2.9-2.5: 8 people

Hypothesis: Those who drink coffee have on average a better GPA than those who do not drink coffee. 7 people who drink coffee vs 3 people who don’t drink coffee get a 4.0-3.5. It’s easy to see that it’s a big difference between drinking coffee and their academic performance. It’s not clear if it makes a difference whether or not most of the coffee drinkers were females.

What could have made this survey more affective?• Organize multiple choice

answers better

• Provide selections to choose from for “How often do you drink coffee”

• Ask what time their earliest class was to get an understanding of how tired they would normally be in the class.

• Researched more students to see if the correlation was still true with a bigger audience.

• Better categorize whether or not the amount of coffee that was being consumed led to better academic performance.

• Rethinking questions being asked on the survey, some information wasn’t needed or used