Daily Step Count and Student Lifestyle

Abstract

A survey study with a 7-person team: what predicts how much Santa Clara students walk? We surveyed 29 students on their self-reported daily steps and eight candidate drivers: distance from campus, class load, attendance, transportation, exercise frequency, social outings, job status and year. Then we worked the conditionals. Students who exercise at least three times a week cleared 8,000 steps 60% of the time (9 of 15), and students who go out at least four days a week did so 55% of the time (5 of 9). We closed on the limitations: a sample under 30, a convenience sample, self-report bias, outliers and missing confounders.