I posted the link of my survey on my Facebook page and had many different people take it. It ranged from my past high school teacher, to friends my age, and the older and younger ones. Turns out they all have something in common; they love music!
Everyone who took the survey agreed that music can change their mood. Depending on the song, their excitement can be lifted but it could also be brought right back down. Also, over 50% of the people surveyed said that there’s songs which remind them of past events or people, and only one person said that they don’t listen to music when they’re angry or sad. Everyone else agreed that music calmed them.
My results were much of what I expected. I think I came up with pretty good questions and i would’t change anything. Well, maybe one thing, which didn’t even have to do with the questions. I probably should have included a place for the surveyers to put their name, in case I wanted to quote them in my paper, because now I have no idea who said what. Other than that, I think my friends had fun doing my homework for me by taking this survey. It was a good assignment and I will definitely use some of the data I obtained in my paper.
You did a great job on your blog post. You were clear on who participated, what your survey was about, where you posted to solicite your survey for participation, how your expectation coincided with the survey results. I agree with you when you said, "I probably should have included a place for the surveyers to put their name, in case I wanted to quote them in my paper," because I too wish I had names for the same reason.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you had fun with this assignment. I like how you included specific statistics like "50%" and "all but one". You brought up a good point about knowing the names of the survey takers in case you want to quote them. I too wish I had done this now. The only thing is that I wish I was a little clearer on what our survey was about than just "music" in general.
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