Survey 4 Analyses:
If you were on trial
for murder, who would you want as your defense attorney?
45% the campus would choose our mock trial coach as our real
trial lawyer, and Dr. Guliuzza would be in high demand if PHC students became
suspects in murder cases. Almost a third
of students would make Dr. Farris their first choice.
Females were almost as equally likely to choose Dr. Farris
(38.6% of females) as Dr. Guluizza (42.1% of females), while males preferred
Dr. Guluizza (54.0% of males) at an over 2 to 1 margin over Dr. Farris
(23.8%). Meanwhile, exactly two-thirds
of the students who chose Dr. Montgomery were males.
Regardless of your
personal like/dislike of the song, which pop song do you think will mostly
likely be played on “oldies” radio in 20 years?
I can’t believe my eyes,
But it looks like ‘Firefly’,
Leads the oldies charts at forty-six percent.
‘Baby’ gets one-fourth the votes,
Mainly from female folks,
And ‘Gangnam’ hardly makes a dent.
Almost half of campus agrees,
That ‘Firefly’ leads the oldies.
It’s hard to say, but it seems ‘Friday’
Comes last with three point three.
And just a fifth will party with Miley!
How many books from
Western Lit class had you read before taking the class?
There was a decent spread in the number of Western Lit books
we’ve read before coming to school. Half
of the campus had read at least 15% of the books, and 15% of the campus had
read at least half of the books. Only
8.5% of the students were completely new to the stories.
The freshman class was the class most likely to have read
over half of the books. They were also
the class most likely to have read none of the books. This does beg the question: do they even know
which books are in Western Lit?
I decided, arbitrarily, that anyone who has read at least a
quarter of the books for Western Lit before arriving must be well-read, while
anyone who has read two or fewer books has some catching up to do. This allowed me to honor a class and shame another
class for their reading choices before coming here.
The honor of truly being the most well-read incoming class,
with 35.9% of the class being literary experts, goes to the Sophomores.
The dishonorable mention for being the least well-read incoming
class, of whom 53.8% were deficient, goes to the Sophomores. Congratulations on managing to be both the
best, and the worst, at the same time!
And because I know many of you are curious, females are
much, much more well-read than males.
What is your attitude
toward recreational alcoholic drinks?
Preface for this question: a few people had some legitimate
issues with the phrasing of the answers.
Therefore: the answer “I’m not waiting until I’ve graduated” is not
meant to be taken as a rebellion against the school’s policy and honor code. Several people replied with that answer with
the caveat that they only drank recreationally when they were within school
policy and federal law (for example, drinking under their parents’
supervision). I adapted a few of the
write-in answers which included parental supervision to fall under this
category. No one reading this survey
should think that those who gave this answer are defying the school’s honor
code. That being said:
The responses were remarkably split across the entire
board. Slightly over a quarter won’t
touch them (one person remarked that they ‘taste bad’), almost a quarter are
ambivalent, and almost a quarter are looking forward to graduation. The rest (for those who aren’t keeping track,
it’s about a quarter of the total) are already participating in some form or
other.
How involved will you
get with your class theme?
The responses to this question were also very balanced
between all the answers, with a slight tendency toward being less involved.
The Junior class is tending toward becoming the most
involved, and the Sophomore class is tending most toward being the least
involved.
Around a quarter of each class will participate, but will
not wear their revolutionary garb, with one exception: the Senior class, the
toga-wearing revolutionaries, have only 14.3% who refuse to wear their
traditional robes. As a senior, I’m torn
between being excited at the outstanding class participation we’ll have, and
horrified at the thought of a sea of togas…
When you pray aloud
in a group, do you rehearse your own prayer while you wait your turn or do you
pray spontaneously?
One of the answers I allowed for this question was “About
half of each”, and that’s eerily predictive of the answers I got. 60.3% of the students gave this middle of the
road answer, and exactly half of the remainder replied on each of the remaining
two answers.
When broken down by male/female, it's almost exactly the same, with a slightly higher tendency for females to rehearse.
Which pizza crust do
you enjoy most?
29.8% of students think that cheese-stuffed should take a
high priority in future kitchen experimentation, while a barely outvoted 28.9%
think that perfecting the normal crust is the best use of time. To the twenty percent who voted for
deep-dish, I’m afraid that’s not currently on the horizon.
Who will win the
presidential election this year?
Almost 60%
of the campus are predicting a Republican upset in this election. While all
the current classes currently expect a Republican victory, with freshmen the
most optimistic and sophomores the least, the reverse is true among the
graduates: 62.5% of the alumnae expect the Obama to enter a second term.
[Males Only] If your
significant other wanted to watch a sappy chick-flick, would you watch it with
her?
If you’re a girl who likes sappy movies, take heart! 93.8% of the males would make an excellent
boyfriend and would watch those movies with you, though about a quarter would
expect you to watch their action movies as well.
I decided to run an excitement analysis, and see if people
who were excited about homecoming were also excited about sappy
chick-flicks. The results were actually
counter-intuitive. Those guys who are
least interested in watching chick-flicks are more likely to get completely
involved in homecoming.
[Females Only] If an
eligible young bachelor asked out to a fast-food restaurant on your first date,
what would your response be?
If you’re a guy without a lot of money, take heart! 77.2% of females say they would not have much
of a problem if a guy asked them out to a fast food restaurant, though only
24.6% would be actually excited by it. The rest (22.8%) will have a bad opinion of a guy who does that, so ask carefully.
I ran a comparison of this question with how well-read the
females were, with some interesting results.
The more well-read females tended to be more excited by fast-food, while
the less well-read ones tended to be more annoyed. So, if you’re a poor college male, a
well-read female is your best-bet.
Statistician’s note: There were three people who replied to
this question with “In Love: There's nothing I love more than fast-food!” which
was one of the possible answers I allowed.
At first, this seems to encourage poor college males to ask out the
girls, but I noticed that all of the people who submitted this response were
guys. I’m on to you!
Episode 4 Data:
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| Dr. Farris - 30.6% (37) Dr. Guliuzza - 48.8% (59) Dr. Mitchell - 13.2% (16) Dr. Montgomery - 7.4% (9) |
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| Party in the USA - Miley Cyrus - 19.2% (23) Friday - Rebecca Black - 3.3% (4) Firefly - Owl City - 46.7% (56) Baby - Justin Beiber - 24.2% (29) Gangnam Style - PSY - 6.7% (8) |
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| None of them - 8.5% (10) Only one or two - 39.3% (46) About three or four - 23.9% (28) Around a quarter of the books - 12.8% (15) Half or more - 15.4% (18) |
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| I plan to avoid them always - 28.8% (34) I'm ambivalent - 24.6% (29) I look forward to when I'm 21 and graduated. - 23.7% (28) I'm already 21, graduated, and enjoying a regular drink - 5.1% (6) I'm not waiting till I'm graduated - 17.8% (21)* See the preface above for clarification on this question. |
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| I won't show up for any part of homecoming - 8.3% (10) I will show up for an event or two, but won't get that involved - 24.8% (30) I'll participate, but I'm not wearing a toga / kilt / knickers / budenovka - 22.3% (27) I'm really looking forward to it. I'll be at all the events - 23.1% (28) I'll be proudly waving my flag, dressed in full battle regalia, and shouting incendiary speeches on the front steps of Founders! - 21.5% (26) |
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| Pray Spontaneously - 19.8% (24) About half of each - 60.3% (73) Rehearse - 19.8% (24) |
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| Thin Crust is the way to go - 16.5% (20) Normal crust, if you please - 28.9% (35) We need deep dish - 19.8% (24) Cheese-stuffed. Because the cheese on top just isn't enough - 29.8% (36) Pizza is a product of the lower classes. I never eat the stuff - 5.0% (6) |
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| Mitt Romney - 58.7% (71) Barack Obama - 41.3% (50) |
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| Even when I'm not in a relationship, I watch them anyway - 20.3% (13) Of course. Those movies are actually worth watching when sharing with someone special - 50.0% (32) If she's willing to watch action movies with me, I'll watch chick-flicks with her - 23.4% (15) No, I wouldn't. She can like them, but that's what girls' movie nights are for - 4.7% (3) No. I would never get involved with someone who liked chick-flicks - 1.6% (1) |
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| In Love: There's nothing I love more than fast-food! - 0% (0) Slightly Excited: This shows he's laid-back and easy-going - 24.6% (14) Forgiving: He's a poor college student after all - 52.6% (30) Dubious: That's all he thinks I'm worth? - 15.8% (9) Annoyed: It's obvious this is not meant to be - 7.0% (4) |
Demographic Data:
Total Respondents: 121
Male: 63
Female: 57
Freshman: 13
Sophomore: 39
Junior: 24
Senior: 35
Alumni: 8
Other Data:
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