Our hypothesis is that  there is a gender difference in the amount of time teenagers spend on hair care in a day. To determine this we polled teenagers and analyzed the results.

Our data was drawn from a random sample of ten teenagers aged 12 - 15. This sample consisted of 40% boys and 60% girls. When the data is viewed together, the time spent on hair maintenance ranged from 0 to 30 minutes per day with the sample spread relatively evenly through out. When the sample is broken down on a gender basis there appears to be a significant gender difference. It would appear from our small sample that boys spend a lot less time on their hair (0 - 5 minutes) compared to the girls (10 - 30 minutes).

Possible sources of error are the small sample size and the 40/60 split of the sample group.

A further extension of this experiment would be to expand the sample to other age groups and see if this gender trend extends throughout the ages.