2006-09-22 03:15:57 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Favorite color, favorite sport, preffered store, genre of book, etc. Choose one that you're really interested in!
2006-09-22 05:38:53 · answer #1 · answered by summerlover 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Choose a topic that has some data available on people's preferences. It can be something simple. Say, if you find data that people with the favorite color blue are friendlier and more open, then do a survey on favorite colors. If you are surveying strangers, more friendly people will talk to you than others. Or do something simple like find the five top rated restaurants in your city. Ask people to choose from the five top rated. See if your survey correlates with the actual top rated restaurant.
What you choose depends upon what you have to do with it afterwards. Do you have to write a paper on your data and explain things further? If so, choose a topic that you know you can easily find data on. If the idea is to see how accurate surveys can be, then choose a topic on which there is already survey data available.
What I did once (it was for a psychology class) is get together with two other students. We all did surveys on the same thing and compared our data. We asked about the recommended length of sentence for a convicted criminal. Mine had 5 years as the middle choice. Someone else had it as the top choice (shortest time). The other student had it as the last choice (longest time). We found most people choose the middle answer. Of course we did not have to do more than write a short paragraph telling about our data. In that paragraph we compared our data to each others. We all used co-workers as our sources for the survey.
Spell check kept locking up my computer, so please ignore the spelling.
2006-09-22 15:33:00 · answer #2 · answered by Patti C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe you can do a survey about people's fears in corrolation with what is broadcasted on the news. Radiation recently made teh nightly news so ask ppl about that concern or about becoming a military man/woman in this tiem of war that is often broadcasted. Then also ask those same ppl. about an uknown danger (you may have to do a bit of research for one) -or maybe global warming and ask about their fear of that. see if they are puppets of teh media and only know and are concerned about what th emedia tells them.
2006-09-22 10:25:47 · answer #3 · answered by Schlav!! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The correlation of people who smoke cigarettes and criminal records.
2006-09-22 10:17:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
what kind of pranks have you played??
2006-09-22 10:25:34 · answer #5 · answered by hate players 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
poverty
2006-09-22 10:58:59 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋