sURVEY

sURVEY The format of the paper will be: Statement of your hypothesis and a very brief discussion of how you decided that there was merit to this particular subject as an area for investigation and what led you to choose to examine this particular topic. Discussion of the subject to be studied and the method employed to conduct the research. If you are using survey documents, a sample must be included. The sources of information must also be well documented. Research tools must also be clearly specified, e.g. don't just say a ruler was used, specify whether it was a metric or linear ruler. Remember the experiment must be reproducible and your work must be origm Talk about problems that arose either in the accumulation of the data or in unexpected results that caused you to change your methodology. (This change will have occurred during the experiment, not before you settled on the topic of your experiment.) Data Analysis Analyze the data collected. If you have collected information on age and sex of respondents, make sure that you compare answers according to age and sex as well as any other parameters used in the survey. (More on survey experiments in class.) If you ask ten questions, each question should be purposeful and should give you data useful in supporting or refuting your hypothesis. Discuss the results of the research fully including graphs, pictures, and data tables as appropriate. Based on the data, draw a conclusion about the data. You may also have noticed a strong correlation in the data to something you may not have been testing. This serendipitous finding should be noted, though it is not necessary to go into further discussion in the paper. Conclusion Finally, you will state whether you believe the data analysis and the conclusion support or refute your hypothesis