Project topic suggestions

1. Ages of student cars compared to faculty/staff cars
2. Proportion of foreign cars driven by students compared to the proportion of foreign cars driven by faculty
3. Car ages in the parking lot of a discount store compared to car ages in the parking lot of an upscale department store
4. Are husbands older than their wives?
5. Are husband/wife age differences the same for young married couples as for older married couples?
6. Analysis of the ages of books in the college library
7. How do the ages of books in the college library compare with those in the library of a public library?
8. Comparison of the ages of science books and English books in the college library
9. Estimate the hours that students study each week
10. Is there a relationship between hours studied and grades earned?
11. Is there a relationship between hours worked and grades earned?
12. A study of reported heights compared to measured heights of people
13. Is there a relationship between taste and cost of different brands of chocolate chip cookies?
14. Is there a relationship between taste and cost of different brands of peanut butter?
15. Is there a relationship between taste and cost of different brands of cola?
16. Is there a relationship between the lengths of men's (or women's) feet and their heights?
17. Are there differences in taste between ordinary tap water and different brands of bottled water?
18. Is there a difference in taste between Coke and Pepsi?
19. Is there a relationship between student grade-point averages and the amount of television watched? If so, what is it?
    
20. Is there a relationship between the height of a person and the height of his or her navel?
21. Is there support for the theory that the ratio of a person's height to his or height navel height is the Golden Ratio of about 1.6:1?
22. A comparison of the numbers of keys carried by males and females
23. A comparison of the numbers of credit cards carried by males and females
24. Are murderers now younger than they were in the past?
25. Do people who exercise vigorously tend to have lower pulse rates than those who do not?
26. Do people who exercise vigorously tend to have reaction times that are different from those of people who do not?
27. Do people who smoke tend to have higher pulse rates than those who do not?
28. For people who don't exercise, how is pulse rate affected by climbing a flight of stairs?
29. Do students tend to have pulse rates that are different from faculty?
30. Do left-handed people tend to be involved in more car crashes?
31. Do men have more car crashes than women?
32. Do women come to a complete stop at stops more often than men?
    
33. Do young drivers have more car crashes than older drivers?
34. Are drivers who get tickets more likely to be involved in crashes?
35. Do smokers tend to be involved in more car crashes?
36. Do people with higher pulse rates tend to be involved in more/fewer car crashes?
37. Are the proportions of male and female smokers equal?
38. Do students tend to smoke more (or less) than the general population?
39. Are people more likely to smoke if their parents smoked?
40. Analysis of service times (in seconds) for a car drive-up window at a bank
41. A comparison of service times for car drive-up windows at two different banks
42. A comparison of times for cars at drive-up windows at two different fast food restaurants
43. Analysis of the length of times that McDonald's' patrons are seated at a table
44. Analysis of the length of times that McDonald's' patrons wait in line
45. Analysis of the length of times cars require for refueling
46. Designing and analyzing results from a test for extrasensory perception
47. Analyzing paired data consisting of heights of fathers (or mothers) and heights of their first sons (or daughters)
48. Gender differences in preferences of activities among the options of dinner, movie, watching television, reading a book, golf, tennis, swimming, attending a baseball game, attending a football game
49. Is there support for the theory that cereals with high sugar content are placed on shelves at eye level with children?
50. Is there support for the claim that the mean body temperature is less than 98.6°F?
51. Is there a relationship between smoking and drinking coffee?
52. Is there a relationship between course grades and time spent playing video games?
53. Is there support for the theory that a Friday is unlucky if it falls on the 13th day of a month?