Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Survey Results!!!

I was really happy with the results of my survey! I learned a lot from it and it is going to greatly improve my paper. I sent the survey out to the class and ended up with 9 people who responded back. I thought at first that this may be too few of people but once i read all of the results i think that this survey still helped. I only asked 5 questions in my survey and they were all geared towards my topics on animal rights. I asked how many times a week on average does a certain person eat meat. I was not so surprised to see that all 9 people ate meat on average 4-7 times a week. The next question i asked was if that person ever thought about the animals lives that were being effected and 6 out of the 9 people said yes they do. This actually really surprised me because i figured that most people would treat that situation as an "out of site, out of mind" thing. I then asked if they owned any pets and only 4 of the 9 people had. I asked this question to see if there was a correlation between people who own pets and how much meat that person ate a week. I did not see a connection there. I also asked if that person owns an apparel item that is made from animals and only 2 out of the 9 do. This was kind of expected because this survey was conducted to college students and usually college students are on a tight budget and apparel made from animals are often expensive. That could be the main reason for this, or maybe it could be that people feel less bad about eating meat and more bad about wearing an animal. The last question i asked was if that person feels restless if they have to sit in one room for a long period of time. All but one person answered yes to this question. I asked this because all of the animals being raised in the slaughtering or fur houses are kept in extremely small cages in which they can barely move in one way or another. I already knew that most people would answer yes to that question but i just want to prove that people should treat animals how they would want to be treated, even if they are being raised to die anyways. This survey was very interesting and helpful and im glad my classmates took time out of their day to take it for me! :)

3 comments:

  1. You're right it is surprising how much information you can get even if it is from just a few sources. And it seems that you, like me, got a lot of the answers you expected. So now that you've got that information, are you considering refining your survey and doing another?

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  2. I also opted for making the survey and sent it to our English class and was pleased with my feedback. It will be useful in our papers, especially since our audience is college students and these results are geared directly towards them. I think you're right about the tight budget affecting what we'll buy as far as animal made products go. This probably goes along with food as well because meat is relatively expensive.

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  3. I would have liked to have seen a "7 or more" times a week for the meat eating option since I tend to eat meat at least twice a day and sometimes with every meal on the weekend.

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