IHSS Blog 2020-2021

          The two sections I decided to analyze were gender equality and issues of racism. I have noticed that many of the people that support gender equality also support racial equality, so I though it would be interesting to look at from actual data. From looking just at the general data and not at any specific answers it looks like most people that took the survey support BLM and gender equality and realize that there are still many issues regarding this today. When I looked further into it and saw all the specific responses I saw that I had guessed correctly. For the most part, the people that said there was no gender inequality in the workplace voted that there was little to no issues with white supremacy. As well as most of the people that voted that they support BLM also voted that they think that the continued rise of women's influence in popular culture, government, and business is a positive thing and that women shouldn't have a "pink tax". Anoth...

  The pet industry in America has become a huge part of society as most Americans today own at least one animal that they keep as a pet in their household. There seem to be multiple reasons for this, but I believe one of the major ones is that it has at this point become weird for a person to have never had at least one pet in their life. A societal expectation has been made that every person here has owned a pet, and people have even started being categorized by what kind of pet they have. The two most popular animals to keep as pets here are cats and dogs, and a whole stereotype has evolved around the people who own either of them. This phenomenon has become so common that people have even started introducing themselves as either a “dog person” or a “cat person” and based on whichever animal you favor, society places an expectation on what your personality is. Some examples of this from an article by Insider are that dog people are twice as likely to work in finance meanwhile cat...

 Isaak Townsend For this survey, I looked at the level of education as related to raising taxes in order to help pay for a Covid vaccine. The results are difficult to determine without interpreting bias and assumptions. The results showed that the majority of people with a Bachelors's degree disagree with using taxes to pay for a vaccine. Even so, this was the closest out of all the groups.  I do not have an explanation without major assumptions. Does having higher education create more awareness of how taxing can support health care? Nevertheless, this degree is not the highest one you can obtain. So, one could assume that their job may be average and they do not earn a lot and therefore do not want their taxes to go up at all!  The next group is people who are still in college. This group was almost unanimously in agreement with raising taxes. Again assumptions are present. If the person is in school they should be focusing on their studies therefore not making a l...