Data Source: The data was taken from A.O.L. (American On Line) chat rooms on January 19, 1999 from around 6:00pm to around 7:00pm. The address on the World Wide Web is www.aol.com. The questionnaire was administered by myself and a classmate by asking a random person that was logged on at the time, "Can I ask you a few questions for a class I am in?" If they agreed, we would ask them their age/gender, and then the question "Are you a Christian?" The variable in question was if the person was a Christian (a person who believes and follows the teachings of Jesus Christ.) There was only two possible answers to the question, yes or no. There were 35 people interviewed.

The results did surprise me because I had the impression that most of middle class America, especially young people, had turned away from religion, and the existence of God. This experiment reassured me that the group of people I consider myself to associate with still does believe in a higher being and does have faith in Jesus.

The two graphs both show the results of the data from the experiment "Are you a Christian?" but in different ways. The relative frequency of the people that said yes to the question was 0.6571, and the relative frequency of the people who said no was 0.3428. That means that 65.71% of the people we interviewed where Christian and 34.28% were not.

The bar chart does a good job of enhancing the data so that the differences were seen, and it also had the option of labeling the axes to make the data more clear to the reader. A

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