IHSS Blog 2020-2021

  Overall, the biggest group of respondents were female Democrats. I believe this result can be explained fairly easily by looking at the methods of dissemination used and the demographics of our general area. Houston itself has always tended to vote Democratic, even when Texas itself does not. Those who responded that they identified with the Democratic party were not all female, though. The majority of men selected that option, albeit at a lesser rate than women. As for the main reasons why women tend to vote Democrat, that’s pretty straightforward. The Republican party’s platform doesn’t support women’s rights. For example, in 1980 Ronald Reagan endorsed bills that blocked women’s abortion rights. The Democratic party has capitalized on this flaw in the opposing platform by taking stances that are in staunch support of the progression of women’s rights. As for the survey itself, there are a few things we could have done to make it more fine-tuned. The punctuation and capitalizat...

after looking through the poll, there is some clear evidence of similarities in voting choices. as seen in the age section, most of the voters are within the 18-25 year range or the 46-55. from this, you can conclude that the younger ranges are most likely student's older siblings or friends and the other data is most likely parents. with the votes from the younger age group has primarily democratic values and votes, and is mostly in support of different things like the blm movement, free healthcare, and lgbtq+ activism. the older age group tends to be a bit more conservative, republican. as a whole, there is little to no opposition to the blm movement, but much of the "i support, but do not participate" i think this is because the older age group does not find the movement as vital to our society as the younger group does. another thing to notice is that the gender section is primarily female, which is definitely something to pay attention to. you can also see that the l...

This survey had a lot of interesting data that analyzes current issues in our government system and society. I find it interesting how 56% of the poll-takers identified as caucasian and a total of 64% of the poll-takers agree that President Donald Trump has responded to the protests was wrong. This shows a lot of progress America has made over the years especially in the white community. Also, 42.5% of poll takers believe in the Black Lives Matter movement. The caucasian poll-takers played a big role in that statistic since they are the majority of the poll-takers. The amount of people who believe in BLM but don’t take part in activism is quite large. The number is about 30%. I believe this is due to the fact that the BLM movement doesn’t have the interest of white people and Asian people since it only stands to make a difference for African Americans. This concerns me because if many people believe in this movement but only a few partake in activism, the movement won’t have much of a ...

       After reviewing the survey, something that stood out to me was that there were more women that took the survey than men (54% women). Also, more participants said they affiliate with the Democratic party than Republican or any other (59.5% Democrat). My theory is that gender and political party correlate with each other. According to the website  Gallup News , women from the ages of 18 to 85 are more likely to vote Democrat than men of the same age. Gallup News also says that this is regardless of all major racial and ethnic groups of society. This is according to an analysis and study of 150,000 interviews.       I also believe that there is a correlation between political party and LGBTQ rights. From what I have seen and heard, the Democratic party and parties that affiliate with the Democratic party are more invested in social issues and furthering equality. For example the Democratic Party Platform released a quote saying; " Democr...

With what party do you most affiliate? VS. Coronavirus-related Issues  One thing I found most interesting about the survey was the Party opinions versus opinions on Coronavirus. The majority of people that took this survey but still a big percentage of people were republican. Some were other parties such as Green or Libertarian but only a very small percentage. I think that there were lots of votes for agreeing with a mandated vaccine, lots of votes for increasing taxes for free vaccines, and lots of votes for government-mandated masks because there was a large percentage of democratic participants. More often than usual Democrats are more open to or push for fighting coronavirus. You can see how many more people who participated in this survey are inclined to want to stop the virus especially in the last question with many votes for strongly agreeing with government-mandated masks. I found it quite strange that for the questions about mandated vaccines and to impose taxes for a fr...

Charlie Brisch Mr. Roddy 11/16/20 Voting Survey Analysis     So I think that people's political party view effected their views on LGBTQ+ issues. If you look at the pie chart, around 64% chose left-wing views, then if you look at the section about LGBTQ+ issues, usually over 64% voted for a positive side for the choices. Even some of the remaining right-wing views obviously chose a positive position for the choices on LGBTQ+ issues. Some people did not have a view on this and they did not answer, meaning we cannot have the most accurate results. If we look at the results, you can see even if people had chosen a right-wing political party view, some still chose basic human rights. This still goes along with what my parents told me, most people are socially liberal, fiscally conservative. This means that they thing everyone should have equal rights but also want an even economy. This might be a unique to Houston area voters though. I think we could have improved this poll by mak...

  Emilio San Vicente HISS  Mr. Roddy Nov 16th Analyzing Voting Survey      I will like to start with which party do you like the most and also I want to touch a little bit the topic of vaccines. Well, the democrat party was about almost 60%, actually 59.5%. The Republican party had 19%. Now, about the vaccine I actually thought that democrats were actually the ones leading this voting survey but after analysing a little bit, I realized that I was almost right with this way of thinking and  this is because if you noticed this results: 26.2% strongly agreed, 29.4% agreed, 18.3% disagreed, 12.7% actually strongly disagread. With this being set, I personally think that no matter if you are a democrat or not, every decision that is put about the vaccine is different. For example some democrats agreed and some republicans also agreed about getting a vaccine. I think that this part of the analysis was important because people can notice that a specific party will ...

 Two major aspects from this survey were that most of the people that completed it were democrats and the other one was that there were a lot of young people answering it. This means that our data results are not as exact as a real poll. Another thing to consider is that a lot of polls might have people that are lying about their age and gender which will throw off our results. Since most of the people that completed the poll were democrats that centers out the responses. For example, taking the LGBTQ+ answers it is very central for this community to have rights. If we took the survey from the outskirts of Houston, like Katy or Spring, our results for that topic would have been very different. Since a lot of the families that go to Post Oak live around the metropolitan area of Houston we can consider our answers and how many similarities they have. For the LGBTQ+ community answers, they were all for protecting that community and creating more laws for them. The younger generation m...

 Before I begin on data analysis I want to make clear that this survey did not work out extremely well. I have multiple reasons behind this belief. First, there were too many write ins. One main example that should have been in place is the party affiliation. There was no real need for write in as only about 1.7 of votes did not go to the main two parties in this election. A "other" section would have served much better. The second issue with this survey is that there was not enough representation. In an ideal survey, there would be many more people filling it out, but due to the smaller sample size, we see disproportionate results. An example of this is how 59.5% of responses claimed to be Democrat to the 19% Republican, when (By popular vote in the election) Democrat is only 51% and Republican is 47.3%. Without getting too long winded, this survey needed to be sent out a lot more. One thing that did turn out well is that most questions did get answered, with the most skippe...

  Sabrina Gubbels-Wingo Mr. Roddy IHSS 14 November 2020 Comparing Gender Turnout and Gender Equality The two aspects of data I chose to compare are the gender turn out and gender equality. Majority of the people who filled out the form were women at 54% with 40.5% being men and 5.5% representing the rest of the genders (gender neutral, agender, gender fluid, and others not listed on the survey.).  The first question was: Do you think men and women are treated equally in the workplace? Overall the answers were all represented well with the largest outstanding answer being that there is a lot of inequality at 44.8%. The next most popular answer was that there was little in equality at 30.4%. The remaining 24.8% make up the extremes of both (there is no inequality and in every capacity, there is inequality.). I think the reason the majority was that there is a lot of inequality in the workplace was because the majority of the people who filled out the survey were women and gene...

  Leon Hoang Mr. Roddy IHSS 15 November 2020 Voting Survey Analysis For my survey analysis, I will be focusing mainly on the Issues of Racism section. I feel like since it was my group’s given topic I have more understanding in order to analyze it better. The first question is: Do you think President Trump’s response to current protests has been more helpful towards bringing equality to people of color? On a quick first glance, the question was avoided by one person because there were only 124 responses while the other two had 125. Investigating further, the option “Strongly disagree” took up about 65% of the poll while neutral and disagree took up the other part. And there was a tiny red part that signified the “agree” option. This is interesting because as we discussed previously in class that a majority of the survey takers had an affiliation with the Democratic party, as opposed to the Republican party. This is especially interesting because that would mean a lot of Republicans...

Alex Karni Mr. Roddy 10th  November 15, 2020 For my analysis, I'll be comparing the question "With what party do you most affiliate with" and "How much do you agree with a government-mandated vaccine." The amount of people who responded with the Democratic Party was 59.5%, while 19% responded Republican. With these being the most important groups, there was also 7.1% who responded Independent party. After seeing a much bigger group who responded Democratic, I thought that the results would turn out leaning towards one side. Turns out I was mostly right. 26.2% strongly agreed, 29.4% agreed (around 55.6% said yes), 18.3% disagreed, 12.7% strongly disagreed, and 13.5% neutral. After taking a look at the sheet, I found out that Democrats were almost all against the vaccine and even some Republicans chose the same. This question is one where I think that party affiliation has very little to do with what you choose. This question is also guided towards disagreeing bec...

 Sofi Savarese Mr. Roddy IHSS 11/16/20 Voting Survey A nalysis   I think that there are a few things that we should consider before analyzing the data that we collected. One of the most important things to keep in mind in my opinion is the age of the people who sent out the for ie us and the age of the people who took the form. I think that this is important to look at because there were a lot of people who answered the form who were under the age requirement to vote. This is an issue because it changes the data that would be accurate for the actual election.  I think that one of the main reasons this happened because the students that sent the form out didn't clarify that you must be old enough to vote and because on most of our social media accounts we have people our age as our followers. I think that this can be kept in mind for groups in the future.  I looked at the data on the question "Do you think men and women are treated equally in the workplace?" and ...

 Voter Survey Analysis For this analysis, I will be observing the effects of education level on the willingness to accept a government-mandated vaccine. And for the purpose of simplifying this analysis, I am going to merge agree with strongly agree and go through the same process with disagrees. Fist to provide context fifty-six percent of people were in favor of a government-mandated vaccine while thirty percent of people were against it and thirteen percent were either neutral or had no opinion. Interestingly enough it was very even but I do want to clarify that because of the lack of data and my lack of knowledge on how to value degrees this is a little scuffed. My method for identifying education was to essentially a group everyone that hadn't gone to college and give them a score of 1 then give everyone attending college a two then graduates with Associates and Bachelors a three then Masters got a four and Phds received a three. Then categorized the scores into agrees disagree...

  Aiden Cunningham Mr. Roddy IHSS 15 November 2020 IHSS HW: Blog Voting Survey I have chosen three people to analyze, picked for their party affiliation. EMOTIONAL FRAGILITY, Green, and Libertarian. The topics I picked are Government mandated masks and government LGBTQ protection. So, starting off I would like to say that, not all three agree on one thing, also, the two questions, despite the expected answer for both being agree, the majority for government-mandated masks is disagree. It is interesting how the green and libertarian parties seem to agree on LGBTQ rights, but disagree on masks, while the EMOTIONAL FRAGILITY party seems to disagree with everything. Finally, both the Libertarian and Green party people seem to be in the LGBTQ+ community. I think this is because of the way the democrat and republican parties are not as welcoming to the LGBTQ+ community, as well as different or “radical” ideas, and therefore many people that think differently or act differently go to th...

 Wyatt Quillin Mr. Roddy IHSS 15 November 2020 Voting Survey Results     I will be comparing the party affiliation results with the specific question, "how much do you agree with a government mandated vaccine?" There are an equal amount of responses to both questions. 59.5% or 75 people said that they affiliated most with the Democratic party, while only 19% or 24 people said Republican. There are other parties added too, with the largest being the Independent party with 7.1% or 9 people. When it comes to the data pertaining to the vaccine, the results were more mixed than I expected. Altogether, people who either agreed or strongly agreed evened out to about 55.6%, with 29.4% or 37 people going to agree and 26.2% or 33 people going to strongly agree. 18.3% or 23 people chose to disagree, and 12.7% or 16 people chose strongly disagree. There were 17 people neutral, or 13.5%. Now it is usually thought that Democrats would endorse something like this, but the survey results...

  Jayla Balderas  Mr.Roddy IHSS  15 November 2020                                                    Gender Vs. Issues in Gender Inequality  For the baseline question, I choose Gender and will be comparing this data with the section of questions that discuss the topic of Issues in Gender Inequality. Starting off with the data from the Gender baseline question. According to the survey 68 people who took it, identified as female while 51 identified as male. Leaving 7 people who categorized themselves as the following, nonbinary, agender, genderfluid, gender-neutral, and others. 126 people answered this gender question, and we had 128 responses for the entire survey.  With the section that asked questions on Gender I...

Kilali Latter Mr. Roddy IHSS 9/14/20 Voting Survey Blog After looking at this survey I think we did have some positives and negatives. Overall I think that the topics, questions, and answer choices were good. I think we could have improved on the method of distributing the survey. I think that we had quite a few people who were under the voting age that took the survey, which skewed our data quite a bit. I think this is mainly because when people posted the survey on different social media platforms most of them did not specify that you had to be 18+ to take it. I also think that we should have done more proof reads of the survey, in order to prevent people being able to write in answers for age, and so that we were sure that all the questions were on the form when it was first getting sent out. Otherwise I think the survey was pretty good overall. The two sections I will be comparing are party affiliation and issues on racism. I chose these two because I have seen that people in cert...

  Andy Walsh Mr. Roddy IHSS  15 November 2020  Blog Voting Survey  For this section I will be comparing the age to the COVID results. Our largest majority in the age section is 18-25 with 46-55 just one survey behind. This makes sense because many people may have friends that are in the 18-25 range and even more people will have parents and/or friends of parents in the 46-55 age range. I was not surprised to see that those two groups took a large majority of the surveys. Despite this large majority in the age section, the COVID-19 section is very spread. Every answer to every question finds a spot on the chart with at least 20 people per section on average. This creates a very wide spread of opinions which I find interesting because almost 60 percent of all survey takers affiliate with one political party. This still greatly affects the survey if you combine “strongly agree” with “agree”. This makes it easier to find how survey takers felt about certain statements....

  Alex Gross Mr. Roddy IHSS 12 November 2020 Voting Survey: Afterthoughts on Gender Inequality Data For this blog I want to look into more about the results that we got for the questions about gender inequality. The question I want to look at is “ Is the continued rise of women’s influence in popular culture, government, and business a positive thing or will it have negative impacts?” I chose to look into this question because there were a few people who said that they believe female influence on society, business, etc, is negative and I didn’t think that anyone would be able to say that. Out of the 125 responses 10 people said that they think women having this influence in society is a negative thing. While I didn’t see any trends in race, whether or not people plan on voting, education level, or party affiliation in relation to this question, I did see trends in age and gender which I would’ve expected. It is very important that while 54% of the survey takers identified as fema...

  Nora Mayral Boyle Dr. Roddy IHSS 15 November 2020 Baseline data and LGBTQ Rights Baseline Data: Age | 18> =  2.4% | 18-25 = 30.1% | 26-35 = 10.6% | 36-45 = 12.2% | 46-55 = 29.3% | 56-65 = 9.8% |   | 66-75 = 1.6% | 76-100 = 4.1% | Gender | Male = 40.5% | Female = 54% |  Non Binary = 2.4% | Agender = 0.8% | Gender Fluid  = 0.8% | | Other = 1.6%  | Race | White = 57.1% | Black  =  2.3% | American Indian/Alaska Native = 1.6% | Asian = 13.5% |         | Pacific Islander = 0.8% | Hispanic/Latino = 20.6% | White/Asian = 1.6% | Mixed = 0.8% | “Blue Person” = 0.8% | Middle Eastern = 0.8% |  Voting? | Yes = 83.9% | No = 13.7% | Under Age = 2.4% | Party Affiliation | Democrat = 59.5% | Republican = 19% | Libertarian = 2.4% | Green = 1.6% | Independent = 71.% | None/No Opinion = 7.9% | American CapCom Universal Party = 0.8% | Party for Socialism and LIberation = 0.8% | “EMOTIONAL FRAGILITY” = 0.8% | Highest Level of Educatio...

 Isa Pedersen Mr. Roddy IHSS 15 November 2020 Voting Survey          The voting survey had a very mixed amount of responses. I chose 4 answers to look at. The first two answers were democratic women. I found it interesting that the majority of democrats were woman or neither male nor female. They both answered the questions pretty much the same, except one of them answered the question about LGBT laws, saying that we have enough laws to protect them, while the other disagreed. That was the only difference in answers for the two democrats. The other two answers have a different story. One was a republican male, and the other a republican female. I expected them to answer the questions pretty much the same, but they did not whatsoever. They differed the most in questions about race, and sexism. The first question about gender equality asked " Do you think men and women are treated equally in the workplace?" The man answered that there is a little inequal...

  For this project, I decided to look at gender and issues with gender equality, and my thought process going into this is that women will most likely think there are more issues with gender inequality, while men will think that there are no issues. Just looking at the first 30 responses, 14 out of the 15 women's responses were that there is gender inequality while 9 out of 15 men said there was little to no inequality. For the second question (is the influence of powerful women positive or negative), I believe everyone’s answer will either be neutral or positive, because if it’s not this it may seem sexist. After looking at all of the answers every man and woman said it was either positive or they didn’t know the impact it has on society, the only ones that said it was negative were people identifying as agender or other, but when I looked at their later responses they seemed like trolls so I’m not including them in my research. For the last question about pink tax and whether wom...

Sara Avalos Mr. Roddy IHSS 11/14/2020 Voting Survey Blog Some of the ways that we could have made the survey better were by making sure the people who were filling out the survey were at or above voting age and making sure that all of the information was on every survey. Even though there were very few people that were under the voting age, it did affect some of the questions if not a lot of people answered. There was a problem with some of the questions not being on the survey this affected the results for those questions since you can really tell that a significant amount of people did not answer. I think that everything else worked well. I think that we did our best that we could to get the survey out to our community. I decided to compare the questions related to the Issues on Racism, the generic question on what party do you affiliate with, and the generic question on what race do you affiliate with. I decided to compare these three questions because politicals parties tend to bel...