Reflections

Claire: We have debunked the myth! Despite the poor correlation, it is interesting to study and prove this topic. It goes to show that we can't use everyday myths and tricks to our fancy as they might not be right all the time. Also, SPSS (though it was a challenge to use initially, I must admit!) is an insightful and quick way to collate and interpret data. Definitely useful for FYP!

Huimin: Statistics has never been my strongest subject, nor my area of interest. However, I have come to witness for myself how statistics is important in everyday life, and certainly, would have a big part to play in my very important final year project next year. This project has been fun in it's own way. We dread projects and presentations, but we know that at the day, we will learn something out from it. Using a blog as a form of presentation is a first, and is very interesting. Kudos to that.

No longer dread stats that much now. At least I know a little about how to go about using it effectively, and I'm sure I'll learn more as I go along.

Hui Wen: SPSS has made compilation and analysis of statistics much easier, with few clicks away to find out results like the correlation, how strong the relationship of our proposed idea and etc. Incorporating with the idea of waist and neck ratio, which is highly relevant to the shopping crowd(that's us!), has made the project more enjoyable. While it is not easy to navigate around with SPSS, I have learnt much and it will definitely be useful for our FYP as well as in the future.

Marilyn: I've always wondered whether this myth was true as everytime when there is a sale and long queues aat the changing rooms, I will see women putting the wasitband of the pants around their neck. So when this idea was proposed, I was quite interested in it as it will prove whether it has some truth in it. Though our results may not have proven the myth true, it was a good experience in all as we get to put what we had learnt in statistics to a real-life scenario and not on an exam paper.

Siew Jing: I'm glad that all of us agreed to work on this myth! Since I have always been using this method for myself while shopping, I have always wonder if this works on others too. Seems like neck-waist ratio truly works (for most individuals!), though there are still some limitations as seen from what we obtained in our results. Nevertheless, it was still a fun and great experience to be able to conduct this whole stats project out even though it was kind of difficult to use SPSS at first. But it turns out that SPSS is really useful once you get the hang of it!