Survey Analysis

Part 2:

This survey actually made me think thoroughly about the questions and reflect on them. Those were the questions that made me put myself back into the situation so I could get the full feel from it even if these situations were daily occurrences. They were not that personal (except for one or two) since they were anonymous and I did not feel pressured in answering them.

Part 3:

I was surprised to see that 30 people said that they talk to an adult in their family for more than 5 minutes every day but only 24 have more than 20 minutes of "face time" with a caring adult per day. Do their family not care about them for at least 20 minutes? I also noticed that 32.7% of those who took the survey chose maybe when asked whether friendship is for their own benefit. Do we really not know if we are taking advantage of friendship or we do not want to admit that we are using other people? On the other hand, 39.2% said that people think about themselves only; then why did 32.7% choose maybe when asked if they were thinking about themselves when making friends. The popular vote went to not much when asked if they made others feel bad to make themselves feel good. I had expected the popular vote to go to not at all; are we that selfish or is there an excuse behind it? 21 people said that they were not sure if they were happy about their identities; just shows that the represented population is still creating their identity. I was also surprised that the popular answer was affirmative when asked if people were tired of others in school. Why is this the case; have we been with each other for too long that we want to meet new people?? Why do we want to see new people, can't we just stay with each other? Is it because people change or we know them long enough to see their true self and start to dislike them? The popular vote went to maybe when asked whether people worry what others thought of them. I expected the votes to lean towards the negative side because I always hear people say that they don't care what others thought of them.

Part 3:

In the NYCGOV website survey, survey found that more than 50% of high school students had been sexually active; in our sample size, exactly 50% answered yes. 8% of NYC high school students are having safe sex, much lower than the percentage shown in our survey. One reason for this huge difference is that our sample size was not large enough to represent the whole population, in this case, NYC high school students. Within this small sample size, the number of people who were not truthful when filling out this survey can cause an effect on the results. One thing that was not provided on the website were the questions that were asked in the survey. The questions in the surveys could have been worded differently and this could also cause a change in the answers that will change our results.