Hannah,+Kaila,+Jeyeon

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= Research topic: How does anonymity affect people's behavior? =

Research plan
Go up to people and ask them a question, and afterwards then give them a survey sheet with the same question on it to then see if their answer changed; or using the internet to ask first and then ask face to face as well (the same questions) seeing if their answer changes. Asking each 20 men and 20 women for a good amount for research. Asking 2 pretty extreme questions and then a simple or basic question as well.

Hypothesis
People are more likely to lie when their anonymity is kept. (People have a greater chance of lying over the internet or on the survey sheet rather than face to face) Responses that might hurt the image of participants are likely to appear in the anonymous survey, not in the face-to-face survey. For example, for the question ‘have you ever stolen something?’ people are likely going to answer no in face-to-face survey even though they did, for the sake of their image. They are likely to answer honestly in the anonymous survey or even still lie if they don't want people to know.

Possible flaws
Some participants might not want to answer the questions because they might be embarrassed of their responses. Especially from the face-to-face survey, being questioned by a stranger might arise their fear. Difference in culture and age might affect the results. For example, since Americans are more open than Koreans, they might be more willing to response. If we ask a group, one's response might affect the another. Men also most likely don't care as much to share or what people think of them or what they have done, somethings they are proud of.

Kari- I think it's a really interesting idea. I'm just curious as to what the questions are going to be. Are the questions going to be some type of factual knowledge, or something like the stealing questions? Also, I wouldn't ask the questions face to face and online the same day, then they kow you already have those answers and might make sure to answer in the same fashion.

Literary Review
Kaila Kim

Je Yeon Han

Hannah Griffin

=RESULTS=


1. Asked Question- Do you like cake? F- Y/N 18/2 M- Y/N 13/7 Survey Question- Do you eat cake often due to your liking of? Same 2. Asked Question- Have you ever traveled outside the country (America)? F- Y/N 15/5 M- Y/N 12/8 Survey Question- Are there any other countries that you have gone to besides America? F- Y/N 17/3 M- Y/N 12/8 Change- 3 3. Asked Question- Have you ever stolen something? F- Y/N 1/19 M- Y/N 2/18 Survey Question- Is there something that you wanted so much and didn't have the money for so you took it? F- Y/N 4/16 M-Y/N 5/15 Change- 6 4. Asked Question- Have you ever helped a beggar/ homeless person? F- Y/N 2/18 M- Y/N 5/15 Survey Question- Ever felt bad for a homeless person on the side of the road so you helped them? F- Y/N 5/15 M-Y/N 7/13 Change- 5
 * There were no changes made from the survey or by face to face
 * Many people just simply answered yes or no while others took it more personally such as women, feeling as if we shouldn't know this. This was more of a simple, easy question we thought we'd ask why some people took it more serious.
 * Many people answered no feeling as if they hadn't while a few simply answered yes not being ashamed and didn't get caught. As well as some people changed their answers once it was taken on the sheet and not being known, so many of them changed their answer as they feel o well it doesn't matter anymore.
 * Many people, especially women in and with our society today acted to scared to be able to help someone like that. While men also have more of a not really caring or willing to help someone like that; women feel bad for them but to scared to help with the society we live in today and not knowing.


MALE
 * || ＃yes || ＃no || change ||
 * 1. (asked question) || 17 || 3 ||  ||
 * 1. (survey question) || 17 || 3 || - ||
 * 2. (asked question) || 14 || 6 ||  ||
 * 2. (survey question) || 13 || 7 || 1 ||
 * 3. (asked) || 7 || 13 ||  ||
 * 3. (survey) || 10 || 10 || 3 ||
 * 4. (asked) || 11 || 9 ||  ||
 * 4. (survey) || 12 || 8 || 1 ||

FEMALE
 * || ＃yes || ＃no || change ||
 * 1. (asked question) || 14 || 6 ||  ||
 * 1. (survey question) || 14 || 6 || - ||
 * 2. (asked question) || 16 || 4 ||  ||
 * 2. (survey question) || 16 || 4 || - ||
 * 3. (asked) || 4 || 16 ||  ||
 * 3. (survey) || 5 || 15 || 1 ||
 * 4. (asked) || 10 || 10 ||  ||
 * 4. (survey) || 9 || 11 || 1 ||

OVERALL
 * || ＃yes || ＃no ||
 * 1. (asked question) || 31 || 9 ||
 * 1. (survey question) || 31 || 9 ||
 * 2. (asked question) || 30 || 10 ||
 * 2. (survey question) || 29 || 11 ||
 * 3. (asked) || 11 || 29 ||
 * 3. (survey) || 15 || 25 ||
 * 4. (asked) || 21 || 19 ||
 * 4. (survey) || 21 || 19 ||

For the first two questions, no one except but one answered differently. However, for the last two there was discrepancy. For the 'have you ever stole something' question, overall of four people answered no for the asked question but yes for the survey question. This is probably because they didn't want to ruin their image in front of the interviewer. Also for the last question 'have you ever helped a beggar,' total of 2 people said yes face-to-face but said no in the anonymous survey. This would probably corresponds to the unwillingness to ruin their image.

Another interesting fact is that males answered differently more than females. I think this is because males didn't worry much about the anonymous survey while female were more careful and worried whether it was reliable.

Hannah's Analysis/ Final Paper: