Lab Assignment #6

For this assignment, my partner and I were asked to create a survey to see the different services people use in the Bryan/College Station area, as well as the reasons for using those services.

The following were the questions we asked ten random people:

1. What TV service do you use?


2. When do you watch TV?
   Categories: Primetime, Daytime, Morning


3. Where do you watch TV?
   Categories: at home, at work, at school, other


4. Why do you watch TV?
   Categories: putting off homework, entertainment, social reasons, other (can pick more than one)

Our survey leaves out how many or what TV shows people watched, but we concluded that those questions would receive very broad answers, so we did not think it absolutely necessary to ask them.

We believe we got the results we did for a few reasons. College students want convenient service, and SuddenLink gives them the option of having DVR to record their shows. With little time to sit down and make a point of watching a certain show, college students probably favor this feature because they do not have to be at home for the show to get recorded. Also, there is not really a reason for them to have Television on their cell phones, especially when trying to save money, so that was probably why Verizon was less popular. College students love to procrastinate and have fun, though, so that could be an explanation for the popularity of paying for a service versus not having TV at all (or just using broadcast TV). The Tables below illustrate our survey's results.

TV Service	SuddenLink	DirecTV	Broadcast TV	Mobile	No TV
Number of Users	7	2	1	0	0

Time Slot	Primetime	Daytime	Morning	All
Number of Watchers	8	0	1	1

Where you watch	At Home	At Work	At School	Other
Number of students	9	1	0	0

Reasons for Watching	Putting off HW	Entertainment	Social	Other
Number of students	6	5	3	2