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Environmental Science Question
Ozymandias:
Seriously, I am beloved and adored and these fuckers wouldn't do my homework for me if I asked.
If game theory were applied to these forums, it would be a negative sum.
ViolentDove:
Serious answer: You need a much larger sample size. Such a small number of samples is meaningless in any quantitative way! Somewhere over one thousand is a good rule of thumb for these types of surveys.
Xcarissa:
Yeah... well, thanks.
For those who seem to be wondering, what's really going on is that, the assignment was to make a hypothesis, which is, "People percieve [problem] as the worst environmental problem today". I put in Overpopulation, so what I need to do now, in the "collecting data to support the hypothesis" part of the scientific experiment, is to ask a minimum of 30 people what they think the worst problem is. It was assigned Monday, and due tomorrow, and I don't have enough friends and family to finish it, and I know the internet is pretty damn big. So. Here I am. Would it... would it have worked better if I took out the part about homework and just opened the thread as a discussion... type... thing?
Ozymandias:
If you had started it that way, probably, yes. Tom Sawyer gets more done pretending to have fun than begging for help.
Also, what you say about his company is what you say about society.
SimpsonsParadox:
You would of probably gotten a tad bit 'better' responses (Although how much better is debatable.) The internet is big, but it generally follows biases (Young, Liberal, White, College Educated) that make using it as a sole (or major) source of data tricky at best. For what you're describing, however, the internet should work fine, so long as you note somewhere where your data came from.
If I may, however, suggest one small change: Don't inform us of what your hypothesis is. Stating your hypothesis introduces its own layer of biases (You might 'lead' a few people into giving an answer that they normally wouldn't give.) Merely stating the question (IE: What do you believe is the worst environment problem in the world today) and recording your results not only eliminates a source of bias (Always a good thing) but makes it slightly more simplistic for people to understand and answer.
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