Wednesday, 3 October 2012

Questionnaire review

Last week in my Media lesson I created a 15 question questionnaire to ask people around the college, an example of the questionnaire is shown on my previous post. I printed 10 copies off and went around the college and asked 5 males at random and 5 females at random. From my results I am coming to a conclusion of 1) The most common social class in Prior 2) Whether the students are more commonly a 'belonger' or not and 3) Their favourite subject at prior. My age groups were varied as it was literally random, so some of my overview may not be seen as a fair test. From my results 3 of the 10's favourite subject was Philosophy and Ethics, 2 were Fine Art, 2 were Drama and Theatre Studies, 1 was Psychology, 1 was Graphics and the other was Health and Social care. From this I can clearly see the most popular subject of my random sample was: Philosophy and Ethics. The last question in my questionnaire was 'Are you a belonger?' with a yes/no answer choice. A belonger can mean anything from belonging to one brand or one author. If you bought a t-shirt from Topman for example, liked it and frequently returned to Topman as it is somewhere you like getting your clothes from, you become what is known as a 'brand loyal' a belonger that belongs to a certain brand. Also the same applies to a author, you might be a huge fan of Stephen King and stick to this author for future reading. From my 10 people, I found that the majority of the students at Prior were NOT belongers, this was overtook in the ratio 4:6, 4 being the people who were belongers. Another question that we could take an overall result from was 'What is your social class?' For those who were not aware of their social class, there was another question on 'social grades' which helped categorise them into their class. The options were 'Working', 'Middle' and 'Upper'. The majority of people found they fit into working class at 6 being working, 3 being middle and 1 debatably being upper. We also found the most common social grade was the grade C.

1 comment:

  1. Very clear conclusions; clearly makes good use of media theory and terminology in breaking down the questions. It could benefit from being broken down into paragraphs to make it easier to read but it's well done!

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