Re: Sedentary Librarian Survey

["Hamer, Sharon" <snhamer@METHUEN.K12.MA.US>]

First of all, I would like to thank Mary Ludwick for taking this project on.
I think it is very useful information to have. It would be very useful to
know if people in other fields of endeavor (assembly line workers,
secretaries, dot com executives, lawyers, medical technicians, etc.) have
the same, less, or more activity. Has anyone else done an analysis of how
much they walk in their jobs? And lastly, is an average of 2.8 miles
sedentary?

Sharon Hamer                    Media Specialist
Methuen High School             978-681-1389
1 Ranger Road                   (F) 978-681-1397
Methuen, MA 01844               snhamer@methuen.k12.ma.us

"Painful things are like the knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary to
keep the beads in place"--The Red Tent


> Date:    Sun, 1 Apr 2001 20:23:38 -0600
> From:    Mary Ludwick <ludwick@SWBELL.NET>
> Subject: Results: Sedentary Librarian Survey
>
> I have tallied the results.  Statistically speaking, I have not used
> "pure" math.
> Example: I had to add each person's average, and then get an average of
> that number to get my results.  The correct math formula would be to add
> everyone's total, divide by days etc.  However, not everyone collected
> data for the same amount of days so I just averaged the averages...
> I had a total of 30 responses.
> Our average distance walked per day was 2.8 miles.
> I had 9 high school librarians respond, the HS average was 2.4 miles per
> day.
> Four middle school librarians sent a response, with an average of 1.7
> miles per day.
> Thirteen elem. librarians sent data, their average was 3.0 miles per
> day.
> Four librarians who serve "multi-level" schools (K-12 or 1-10 etc.) sent
> information.
> Their average was 4.05 miles per day.
>        So, a big THANK YOU to those who participated.  What can we learn
> from this?
> Scientifically, very little..but it was interesting to see the results,
> especially from the multi-level schools.  I thought it was a fun
> project.
> --
> Mary Croix Ludwick   ludwick@swbell.net (home)
> ludwickm@lisd.net(school)
> Librarian, Owen Elem.,The Colony, Texas
> Lewisville ISD(north of Dallas)   K-5
>
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>
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