Voting Survey- Kilali
Kilali Latter
Mr. Roddy
IHSS
9/14/20
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 certain parties tend to believe the same things when it comes to issues on racism, and because there is a question related to Trump in this section. I am going off the thinking that democrats believe that racism is a big issue in America and republicans don't think it is or that it isn't a big issue. The first similarity I saw was that the majority of people who responded to this survey were democrats, and from the questions regarding racism a majority of people felt that white supremacy is an issue, the Trump administration has not handled protests well, and a majority were in support of BLM.
On the first racism related question, which is “Do you think President Trump’s response to current protests has been more helpful towards bringing equality to people of color?”, the percentage of people who strongly disagreed is very similar to the people who are affiliated with the democratic party. After looking at the responses of everyone who reported to be a democrat, I found that all of them responded “strongly disagree” or “disagree” to the previous question. Something that is interesting with this question though is the percentage of republicans to the answer choices. I saw that very few people answered “strongly agree” or “agree”. I found that the majority actually answered “strongly disagree”, which I did not expect. The second question matched up to the party affiliation choices a little better. The percentage of people who are republicans is very similar to the people who responded with “All Lives Matter” and the percentage of democrats is similar to people who support BLM. I found that the majority of republicans responded “All Lives Matter”, which is interesting because it lines up with the parties overall views and response to BLM. A majority of Democrats reported to be in support of BLM, which is what I expected. In the last question the percentage of people who did not think white supremacy is an issue or is only a problem in certain parts of the country is very similar to the percentage of republicans. This is proven by looking at the answer choices of republicans, because a majority says that white supremacy is not a big issue or it is in certain parts of the country. All democrats reported that they thought it is a big issue or a bigger issue now than ever. As for the rest of the parties that were on the survey, most of them responded the way democrats did. All of this data is really interesting because it does show that party affiliation has something to do with a person's stance on race related issues. Although there are those who believe the opposite, most republicans showed that in general they did not think racism is a big issue and democrats showed that they did think it is an issue. This data makes me wonder if how people feel about racism has an effect on what party they affiliate themselves with.
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 certain parties tend to believe the same things when it comes to issues on racism, and because there is a question related to Trump in this section. I am going off the thinking that democrats believe that racism is a big issue in America and republicans don't think it is or that it isn't a big issue. The first similarity I saw was that the majority of people who responded to this survey were democrats, and from the questions regarding racism a majority of people felt that white supremacy is an issue, the Trump administration has not handled protests well, and a majority were in support of BLM.
On the first racism related question, which is “Do you think President Trump’s response to current protests has been more helpful towards bringing equality to people of color?”, the percentage of people who strongly disagreed is very similar to the people who are affiliated with the democratic party. After looking at the responses of everyone who reported to be a democrat, I found that all of them responded “strongly disagree” or “disagree” to the previous question. Something that is interesting with this question though is the percentage of republicans to the answer choices. I saw that very few people answered “strongly agree” or “agree”. I found that the majority actually answered “strongly disagree”, which I did not expect. The second question matched up to the party affiliation choices a little better. The percentage of people who are republicans is very similar to the people who responded with “All Lives Matter” and the percentage of democrats is similar to people who support BLM. I found that the majority of republicans responded “All Lives Matter”, which is interesting because it lines up with the parties overall views and response to BLM. A majority of Democrats reported to be in support of BLM, which is what I expected. In the last question the percentage of people who did not think white supremacy is an issue or is only a problem in certain parts of the country is very similar to the percentage of republicans. This is proven by looking at the answer choices of republicans, because a majority says that white supremacy is not a big issue or it is in certain parts of the country. All democrats reported that they thought it is a big issue or a bigger issue now than ever. As for the rest of the parties that were on the survey, most of them responded the way democrats did. All of this data is really interesting because it does show that party affiliation has something to do with a person's stance on race related issues. Although there are those who believe the opposite, most republicans showed that in general they did not think racism is a big issue and democrats showed that they did think it is an issue. This data makes me wonder if how people feel about racism has an effect on what party they affiliate themselves with.
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