Voting Pole Analysis

 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 lot of money so they cannot be taxed a lot and will be given government benefits and they want a vaccine quickly. They would also benefit from a tax or government-sponsored vaccine without having to pay for it. 

The next group is people with a Master's degree. This group has a majority agreeing that taxes should be raised to help get a vaccine. Something worth pointing out is that this is the only major group with no "strongly disagree." The reason for this is again assuming, this is a higher degree so their jobs may be a bit better than a person who has a lower degree. Perhaps they would be able to invest in tax lawyers to save them money and they also want a vaccine, so they can go back to life as usual. 

The next group is Ph.D./Doctorate. This is the only major group that has no "disagree" it is only "strongly disagree" although there are far more "agree" and "strongly agree" than "strongly disagree." My reasons for why this could be are the same as what I stated for a Master's degree. 

The last major group is "not finished with high school." The response is primarily "strongly agree." I can only assume a reason for their response is they probably are not paying taxes yet. Their family pays for a lot of things so they just want to be able to socialize again with their friends and family as it was pre-Covid. 

What could we have done better is spent more time modifying and adjusting our questions because looking back on them some seem like they have some sort of bias on them especially the type of questions and we could have maybe discussed how to spread the survey and actually organized something because all we ended up doing was spreading it through word of mouth.

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