Our project was on abortion. Here are the questions that we asked..For all questions, A=YES, B=NO, C=I DON'T KNOW
1.) Do you support abortion under any circumstances?
2.) If the mother's health is in danger, do you believe that abortion is appropriate?
3.) Should tax dollars be used to pay for abortions?
4.) Should private insurance companies pay for abortions?
5.)Is it legal to use tax dollars to pay for abortions?
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First we are going to discuss our OVERALL results,
Here are our observations based on the overall results:
-The majority of the people that we polled support abortion under any circumstances
-If the mother's health is in danger, there is an overwhelming majority of support of abortion
- The majority of people polled oppose tax dollars being used to pay for abortions
-The majority of people do not know whether or not they would like private health insurance companies to pay for abortions
-A large majority do not know whether or not it is legal for tax dollars to pay for abortion
MALE VS. FEMALE
-Males were in favor of abortion more than females. This is evidence of a gender gap. This could possibly be due to the fact that men do not actually have to consider getting abortions, since they do not get pregnant. They can not fully relate to the subject.
-Males and females both had the same number of "yes" votes regarding women's health being endangered.
-Males were in favor of using tax dollars to pay for abortions more so than females. This is logical considering that they are overall more in favor of abortions than females.
-Similar to the previous question, males were more in favor of having private insurance companies pay for abortions.Women mostly chose "I don't know".
-Both genders did not know the answer to the legality question. This shows a general lack of knowledge on the issue that is not effected by gender
HONORS VS. GEN.ED.
-There was a larger amount of honors students who supported abortion compared to non-honors students.
-There is still an overwhelming majority of people who support abortion in the case where the woman's health is in danger
-Neither groups support the use of tax dollars to pay for abortions
-There is a majority of honors students who support private health insurance companies paying for abortions, but general education students mostly do not have an opinion on the matter
-Many more general education students do not know the answer to the legality question than honors students. Honors students may be more informed on this issue than general education students.
EMPLOYED VS. UNEMPLOYED
-The unemployed and employed demographic showed the general results of the poll. There is not really any correlation between people's views and the fact that they are unemployed or not.
FRESHMAN, SOPHOMORE,JUNIOR, SENIOR DIFFERENCES
-Seniors had the highest level of approval for abortions. Upperclassmen most likely respond in this way because of the fact that they are older and more likely to have to possibly make that decision.
-All of the questions follow the same general trend found in the data. Freshman have a minimal amount of discrepancies between their responses. This may be because their opinions have not been as thoroughly defined as older respondents.
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RANDOMNESS?
In an attempt to achieve randomness, we had to go outside of our comfort level and poll people who we do not know. This included random sampling at school, before school, after school, and at lunch. We also made an effort to make sure to ask people from all different grade levels, and not to focus on asking people in our age group. Also, it was crucial to ensure that we asked students who are not in our own classes, being AP/honors classes, to add to the general education demographic.
POLLING PROBLEMS?
There are many errors that may have occurred while performing this project. For instance, we utilized facebook to poll people. The problem with this is that all of the people who we would ask on facebook are people who we know, and are most likely in our demographic.Also, we may have unknowingly asked the same person who responded to both polls. Due to this, our randomness, and numbers, may have been affected. Another problem that we encountered was that we did not make enough of an effort to equalize the numbers of the different demographics, such as male to female, age, honors to gen ed, unemployed to employed. Our numbers were therefore slightly skewed, and the results were possibly altered.
