Editing the Paper

After consulting with Mrs. Haag (hi Mrs. Haag) about revising my paper, we decided to add in the nuanced differences that I found with gender, age, and individual questions. Also, I used to think that literally nobody besides Mrs. Haag (hi again) was reading this blog, but 25 people viewed my blog yesterday. That might not sound like a lot of people, but I’m really surprised considering that it had literally zero views for a period of time. What happened? Really, if you aren’t affiliated with BASIS Scottsdale in any way I’d like to know how you found out about this blog. Well also, I posted my blog on Facebook a month ago since a lot of other people in the class were and I thought that was what the school encouraged, so you’re probably just my friend on Facebook. Regardless...

All right, so what I had to do in the first place was go through every single survey and input the answers to each question. There were 50 surveys with 9 questions each. According to my calculations... that means I went through and typed in data for 450 questions. For science!

Then I had to go through each survey and mark whether a male or female filled it out, with his or her respective age. When I initially started surveying people, I did not think that age and gender was a factor in my research. Then, I Skyped my research consultant Bob one day and we decided that the results would be more meaningful if we did in fact include age and gender. Since I had all of the consent forms aligned with the respective survey, I knew who filled out which survey. I went through and assigned gender to each survey and age range. I had a lot of exact ages since a lot of the people I surveyed were 18, but I put the parents in the 40-50 age range. This week, I actually emailed the parents asking for their exact ages, and I got those. I’m scared of asking teachers at my school for their exact ages, though. I think that if I did that then my school would get frustrated with me, since they did not want me to survey teachers in the first place because of confidentiality reasons. So if I found out how old Mr. X is... can you even imagine all of the gossip that would go down? (None. Seriously none. But that’s obviously beside the point.)

Then, once I entered all of the data into a Google spreadsheet (shoutout to Mrs. Haag and that one sentence I wrote in my paper when I was like “This graph was made in a Google spreadsheet”) Bob and I found correlations. The correlations are.... a surprise!! Come back next week and I’ll talk about all of the data. If you’re really interested though you can obviously email me or message me or whatever you’d like, I just need to keep this a surprise on the blog so that I have something to write about next week.

Have a great week!

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