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Survey explores correlation between favorite holiday and number of siblings
Taylin Hunter
Special to eSomethin
Ninth in 10 installments
Do prefer to go holiday shopping, or maybe dress up and go trick or treating, or perhaps pig out on a Thanksgiving feast? 
Forty random, PHS students in 4th period lunch and period Four-Five Study Hall were asked this very question. A simple random sample was conducted on November 10, 2015. On the survey, students were asked how many siblings and or step siblings they had, and what was their favorite holiday, Christmas or other.
The results revealed that there was a higher frequency of people whose favorite holiday was Christmas. However, the number of siblings they had little to no effect on their holiday preference.
Although, students who preferred Christmas only had up to 3 siblings with an exception of one student with 6 siblings, whereas students who preferred a holiday other than Christmas had up to 5 siblings. This isn’t very significant. However, one could conclude that students with a higher number of siblings prefers holidays other than Christmas.
Now, why should you care? Well, the results show us that bigger families prefer other holidays other than Christmas.
This could be beneficial for holiday store business owners. They could use this information to publicize their goods. They could advertise their holiday supplies and target these larger families in order to increase business sales.
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