For this assignment we are to design a study about smart phones and driving safety. I will be creating a study that will be quasi experiment.

The study will be looking at phone usage and driving safety. The question is whether phone usage impacts the drivers’ chances of picking up their phones. I hypothesize that those with a higher phone usage will pick up their phones more while driving, compared to those who have lower phone usage.

The experiment will have the participants fill out a survey about their phone usage throughout the day. In addition, we will take the average number of hours used on the phone during the past week to also determine whether they are heavy or light phone users. From there, we will have them drive a course similar to behind the wheel test. Throughout the course, the participant must have their phone in the center console with notifications on. While they are driving, there will be a series of notifications that will go off. We will be measuring how well they do on the test as the dependent variables.

Once all of the data has been collected, I will clean up the data and analyze the data. Some of the ways I will analyze the data is by running a single factor ANOVA test to see if there is a significant difference between the two groups. Following that I will look at the R2, s, and p-value to see the fit of the model.