Each weekday morning, you might purchase a caffeinated beverage from your favorite coffee shop. As you wait to receive your order, you notice some customers adding cream and/or sugar to their coffee. You read somewhere that 65% of coffee drinkers add cream and/or sugar. How was that fact determined...
1. Was this research something you liked or disliked? Explain why.
2. Were your subjects willing to help or did they not want to answer your questions? If not,
which questions did they appear uncomfortable or express discomfort?
3. Was it difficult to write a questionnaire or find a variety of subjects? Discuss any difficulties
you had with the project.
1. Was this research something you liked or disliked? This research was a little interesting
because I was curious about some of the responses I was going to receive. I wasn’t happy
about getting personal with the subjects but I did the best I could. But to answer if I liked doing
this research, the answer will be no. I did not like nor did I enjoyed doing this research. I guess I
was putting myself in their shoes. I mean I love to converse with people of different
backgrounds, but it comes to doing it as a project I guess I can become nervous. Not sure why
that happens. I hope I am able to learn more out of this course so I can be better at this.
2. Were your subjects willing to help or did they not want to answer your questions? The subjects
were willing to help but didn’t feel comfortable answering some of the questions. The questions
they were not too comfortable with were, the two different ways they were brought up and who
were their role models. If they could go back in time, what is one thing they would change about
their past? One of the subjects lost one their parents and the other had a single parent raising
him. Their backgrounds were all different. Some things seemed easy for some and the others
were difficult as far as the way they grew up. One of the subjects kind of freaked out when I
asked about the “gender” question. They were bent out of shape and started explaining to me
about gender bias and other things I really wasn’t ready to get into. Everything else they were
fine with. I know I wouldn’t have been too comfortable answering some of those questions
myself because I recently lost my parents within the last 3 years, 7 months apart. Some of those
questions were touchy for me personally. This reminded me of the some of the questions they
expect us at work to ask the patients when they come in to their office visits.
3. Was it difficult to write a questionnaire or find a variety of subjects? I am not a“tech savy”person,
so it’s kind of difficult to create certain projects on Microsoft Word. This is also my first time
taking a Sociology course, so I am not familiar with the course whatsoever. Making up a
questionnaire was very difficult and coming up with additional questions was not as easy either.
Then searching for people to ask was a chore in itself. I had asked some of my neighbors, one
of them looked at me as if I was crazy.
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