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Exploratory Research Papers

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Method

For this project, we used exploratory research to conduct our analysis on healthy eating. Due to the little knowledge we had regarding healthy eating, we needed to get information from the general public regarding their opinions toward healthy and unhealthy food. Our goal was to find a potential relationship between the cupcakes and the chicken and spinach sandwich. By finding a potential relationship, this could be used for further research experiments regarding the opinions towards healthy and unhealthy foods. We used mainly qualitative research questions to conduct our survey, while having a few quantitative research questions to help compliment the data. Using qualitative research questions was extremely beneficial to our research study because it …show more content…

We decided to use the descriptive text questions because it allowed the person taking the survey to freely express their opinion on the given question. Some questions were set up by first having a quantitative research question and then the respondents were told to explain why they chose the given answer. This allowed us to get a more detailed response, thus giving us better insight on healthy and unhealthy eating.

Results

The results we got were very surprising, yet very insightful. The first question was whether our respondents would be more satisfied with a cupcake or a chicken and spinach sandwich. The majority of the respondents chose the chicken and spinach sandwich due to the fact that it was more filling and a healthier option. Many respondents decided that a cupcake would not benefit them as much because it was not only unhealthy but it wouldn’t count as a proper meal. Next, we

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