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The researcher tested the hypothesis that the growth of the video game industry causes the decline in college readiness by comparing the economic growth of the video game industry and the decline in SAT scores to see how this growth affected the national average of college readiness.
The analysis of the video game market was used instead of the reported hours spent by students playing video games due to hours not being publicly released by the video game companies such as Microsoft and Sony. Other data on average hours spent playing a video game by high school students that were taken from third-party companies do not date back to the decade of reference consistently. The growth of the industry is publicly disclosed information that
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Another reason the SAT was chosen is, the amount of students that take the entrance exam, “a record 1.7 million students from the class of 2015 took the SAT, while 1.67 million did the same from the class of 2014” (Klein, 2015). The math portion of the SAT was chosen to be studied instead of reading or writing because mathematics is required by all college degrees while certain vocabulary based classes and writing classes are not(southern state college, N.D). The reason the researcher used the SAT over the ACT was due to the College Board having more students on average take their SAT than those that people take the ACT. To gather the most precise measurement of college readiness for the entire country, the more participants means the more …show more content…
The video game industry’s trend is highlighted in orange and is corresponding with the orange highlighted numbers located on the right side of the graph (zero through eighteen). These numbers on the right side of the graph are in United States Dollars (USD) in term of billions; for example, when a number on the right side of the chart read ten, the numerical value corresponding is ten billion. The SAT Math scores trend is highlighted in blue and corresponds to the blue highlighted numbers located to the left of the graph. These numbers on the left side of the graph are a scale of average math scores from the SAT