According to the results of our study, we determined that there is no correlation between the amount of time a student spends commuting and the amount of the time a student will spend studying. However, it is unreasonable to acknowledge this conclusion to be absolute due to an assortment of unaccounted variables and unforeseen influences. To further subjugate our findings, our conclusion may only be applied to undergraduate students within Canadian universities which support off-campus and on-campus housing. This is due to the nature of our survey requiring a portion of the sample group to be living on campus under the structure of a Canadian educational system. Distance education students would also fail to relate to our results, as we targeted mainly local students who had been in attendance during our survey session.
Other sources of influence and potential bias which we failed to account for include:
- Rather if and how much the students spent time in external affairs such as volunteered or paid work.
- If students were involved in extracurricular activities such as clubs or sports.
- The year and educational major of which our population belongs to.
- The nature of conducting convenience sampling to only students who had been in attendance.
While these factors may seem minor, the extent of their influences are unmeasurable and therefore our results may not fully represent the true correlation between the time in which students spent studying and the time in which students spent commuting.