While finishing my data collection I discovered that there was an unfair bias and that third-world countries were given harsher punishments than first-world countries. As seen in the image above the breakdown for punishments between first world and third world countries is shown and you can see the trend that as the punishment increases the number of third world countries athletes goes up and the number of first world countries athletes number goes down. While also finalizing my data I found out that the most common punishment is less than a month, the most common steroid/PED used is Testosterone and the sport with most athletes that use steroids and PEDs is Track and Field.

This data matters because it proves that there is a bias and proves my hypothesis correct. A few reasons why there may be a bias is because of factors such as the popularity of athletes in first-world countries, the overall power of first-world countries, and Revenue generated by first-world countries. These are important factors because it does prove why these first-world countries receive less punishment.

Some factors that were limitations to my research were time, lack of Academic research, cover-ups, new information every day,  the timing of the Olympic games, and the legalization of drugs (ex: marijuana). These limitations did cause some issues with data collection because with new information every day my data could be skewed.