Monday, 22 September 2014

Scotland Independence survey


 In this powerpoint We made a survey to find out  the information about other peoples opinions on Scottish independence. you can see in this slide that I have introduced the topic and what was involved to find the information by making a survey and hen showing the results on a tally chart to show the results of the survey.
 In this slide we asked people if they cared about scottish independence and the results show that 65% said yes and 35% said no. which leads onto the 2 question to show why some many people care about scottish independence.
 In this slide we asked if any people had any family that come from scotland and results show that 55% said that they have got family that come from scotland, 40% said they have no family that come from scotland and 5% of the survey are not sure if they have any family that come from scotland.
 In this slide it shows the third question of the survey which we asked if 16 year olds should be able to vote, the results from the pie chart show that only a quarter of the survey said yes and the majority of the survey said no.
 In the fourth question of the survey we asked people if scotland should be allowed independence, and these results show that nearly 60% said that they shouldn't have independence and 38% of the survey said that they should be allowed to have independence.
In this last question we asked people if they were voting and results show that there were a mixed response such as a quarter of the survey weren't sure if they were voting and quite a lot of people said  no that they are not voting and the majority of the pie chart said yes they were voting.

Thursday, 11 September 2014

qualitative and primary research methods and techniques

There are many different methods and techniques for research such as Primary research  which involves you going out and finding out the information for yourself through techniques such as interviews, observations and questionnaires.
today we have be focusing on §qualitative research is  text based research.

 The bo bo doll is used to observe the aggression in kids by the adult putting the bo bo doll into a room and then hitting the doll and when the kid enters the room, the kid then copies the adult in the same way.
Jeremy Paxman puts the interviewee under pressure because he knows what answers he wants to make headlines from, by repeating the question till they give a response to that question. the way the Paxman interviews is semi structured because he knows what he wants to ask but sticks to that one question until they give a response.
 Russell brand is a humanist and when he is interviewed by Jeremy Paxman he basically told Paxman his politic opinion on the economy.
 Louis Theroux has good techniques when he is interviewing because he interviews the interviewee with a non controversial approach but still has an opinion on the topic of the interview.

Theroux tries to trick the interviewee by re-phrasing the question so he still gets the answers he wants. This is known as an observational interview as he observes them in what they do each day.
On the Apprentice they ask open questions to the entrepreneurs to see what explanations they get in response to the questions. The interviews on The Apprentice are tense because they put you on the spot and expect a decent response, on the apprentice they also question the CV and the business plan of the entrepreneurs. This would be known as a semi structured interview.