I did my AP Research paper on osu!
I would like to clarify that I actually did this LAST year, but I completely forgot about it until recently when I was clearing out my drive. Yes, I actually got a 5 on it while others who did actually useful academic research did not (how???)
I was originally going to do something with gacha games, but I thought it would be so, so funny to dedicate my entire paper and AP score to a game that I played very casually and barely knew about (can only play up to 4* for standard, mania, and fruit). HOWEVER, the AP readers over at collegeboard HQ know even LESS than me, so I just had to pretend to know what I was saying! The question was: how does one's preference/opinion of a song impact their skill issue?
I didn't even take stats when I was taking this class... so I think I literally died looking at the analysis section because I was just yapping and hoping I sounded sophisticated enough.
The results of this paper are incredibly worthless because I had a whopping sample size of 9 people. It is highly encouraged to have a very narrow research question, so I narrowed down my question to address high school osu players IN MY CITY, which meant the only feasible way I could get responses was through classmates. However, the majority of my classmates didn't have their own computer and had to use a school chromebook so they could not participate. On top of that, the people who WERE able to do it were so inconsistent (for obvious reasons) that it would be difficult to establish a correlation between skill issue and song preference.
If you'd like to see the paper here it is. Yes, it is 69 pages (nice)
All links to external forms/sheets in the appendices were removed for privacy. Names, usernames, and locations were already censored in the original paper since it's a requirement for submission.
I would like to apologize in advance for the cringe, inaccuracy, and yapping this paper includes (anybody higher than 7 digit would immediately realize how bad this is). On a brighter note, maybe this paper convinced someone working at collegeboard to download osu lol