Monday, November 28, 2011
What I meant by "X/Y"
Initially, I wanted to do a focus group. This fell apart. The people I wanted to take part were all available on different days blah blah blah and there's no point doing a focus group with two people at a time.
So, recently, I began to reconsider a social experiment using 50 people. This would include:
- The use of 5 pictures (5 pictures of males for the females and visa versa).
- The participants would then answer questions like "who do you think is the less intelligent?" or "who is the lesbian?"; studies have used similar questions in similar experiments e.g. one study found that people label the person they find the most attractive as intelligent and another has found that people will label the "less attractive" as the lesbian. Another study using children found that generally, children of all races would label the darkest cartoon girl as stupid and the whitest cartoon girl as the most pretty - even though the cartoon girl was the same but there were just differences in skin tones.
- I could test whether these findings would appear in my study also. Moreover, I could conduct this study over time, e.g. using people when they are free (so doing 5 or 10 people at a time)instead having to relying on when everyone is free all at the same time.
The only problem is...workload. I havent completed my survey and on my time management matrix that is the number one priority, adding this social experiment may cause problems...so the best option now is to wait until I finish the survey of 100 people.
As we discussed in a previous EPQ session (on primary and secondary sources)...you need 6-8 sources for a successful epq. So far, for primary - I have 2 (interviews and surveys) and for secondary - I have 4(books, journals, TV shows and magazines).
Hmm...
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