Alcoholism Skipping Generations
School Name
Chapin High School
Grade Level
11th Grade
Presentation Topic
Physiology and Health
Presentation Type
Non-Mentored
Abstract
The hypothesis is that people will be more likely to have an alcohol dependency if someone in their family does also and that it will skip generations more often than not. This research was conducted by creating a survey asking if the survey taker was an alcoholic and who in their family had/is an alcoholic, the survey was then put on social media. The data that was collected went against the hypothesis in that the results were that it tended to not skip generations when it did run in the family. Some results were not able to be used due to the person who took it being underage. Many results were unable to be used because the alcoholism didn't run in the survey taker’s family. For the future of the project, more results are going to be obtained. Statistics have been done that prove my hypothesis wrong. In the results where the results weren’t included for where alcoholism didn't run in the family, it skipped generations 22.7% while it didn’t skip 77.3%. For the survey results, 48.8% of the survey takers didn't have alcoholism running in their family at all.
Recommended Citation
Shull, Cameron, "Alcoholism Skipping Generations" (2015). South Carolina Junior Academy of Science. 148.
https://scholarexchange.furman.edu/scjas/2015/all/148
Start Date
4-11-2015 8:45 AM
End Date
4-11-2015 9:00 AM
Alcoholism Skipping Generations
The hypothesis is that people will be more likely to have an alcohol dependency if someone in their family does also and that it will skip generations more often than not. This research was conducted by creating a survey asking if the survey taker was an alcoholic and who in their family had/is an alcoholic, the survey was then put on social media. The data that was collected went against the hypothesis in that the results were that it tended to not skip generations when it did run in the family. Some results were not able to be used due to the person who took it being underage. Many results were unable to be used because the alcoholism didn't run in the survey taker’s family. For the future of the project, more results are going to be obtained. Statistics have been done that prove my hypothesis wrong. In the results where the results weren’t included for where alcoholism didn't run in the family, it skipped generations 22.7% while it didn’t skip 77.3%. For the survey results, 48.8% of the survey takers didn't have alcoholism running in their family at all.
