Age and Romanticism

Okay so I don't know if any of you participated in my little study but if you didn't, here is the skinny:
I decided I was bored and wanted to practice statistics OUTSIDE of school. (I know, I'm pathetic). So I conducted my own study. My hypothesis was the older females get, the less romantic they become. My theory on this was behind the fact that as we get older, we tend to become slightly bitter to the opposite sex. (I know I do, anyway). So I decided to test this out. So I sent romance questionnaires to 13 subjects (n=13) and the mean age was 22, with a range from 16-37 years of age. The scores on the romance scale were calculated in percentages, and the mean score for the sample was 50.62%. (Low huh? What's wrong with everyone?) Anyway, so I calculated Pearson r, which calculates correlation. If you guys don't know what correlation is, it's a score that lets us know how closely two variables are related. This does not mean that one causes the other. So I was looking for a relationship between romanticism and age. I wanted to see a straight line on a graph to prove that the older you get, the lower your romance score. Well that's not quite what I found. See, to have a good correlation, you have to have a score close to 1.00, well, Pearson r ended up being equal to 0.12, which in statistical terms, pretty much means you've got nothing. There is practically no relationship between age and romanticism. You can kind of see this for yourself in the graph.

You'll notice it's seriously ALL OVER the place! I failed, meh, I guess I should have seen it coming. This sample is completely biased! I mean, the majority were Christian, some were married, some had boyfriends, I guess in order to do better, I'd have to do something like "in single women" or something. Maybe the score would become higher.






Hey, but as a great side note, at least the graph is cute! (it's pink!)

CHRISSY