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The Importance Of Data Identotypes And Answers

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To collect data for my experiment I am going to look at my Facebook profile and find 50 of my friends who are between the ages of (18-30) and (31 and older) and see what they have posted about kneeling during the National Anthem. This will ensure that I get a large enough sample size in order to accurately represent the age groups that I selected to look at their views on kneeling. In order to insure I’m not self-selecting the people I look at I will be typing into the search bar, NFL National Anthem Protests which will show the latest posts by my “friends”. To define post for the experiment, I will be looking at any post that is written or shares an opinion about kneeling during the National Anthem. This means that I will not be looking …show more content…

When marking age range, I will either have a Y which represents young or O which represents Old. To mark opinions, I will use the 3 categories (agrees with, in the middle, or against) in relation to kneeling for the National Anthem. Tracking reasoning is more difficult but I will look at key words and statements like disrespectful, freedom of speech, soldiers, flag, social justice, suspension, rights, and doesn’t matter. to better organize the data into more observable categories. With all of these being in a chart it will allow me to keep track of my information and keep my personal bias out of the experiment as I won’t be giving my own commentary on the outcomes but simply reporting what the opinions of the post show. I feel this is important because if I were to write comments on each post my own personal beliefs could come into play and that would skew the data and information that I’m collecting. Lastly, I will record the number of comments on the post and anything significant that said in the comments as it will be important for me to note for the discussion. What I’m looking for in my experiment is how the different age ranges effect people’s opinions on a political and social topic that is very popular currently. In order to find this from the data I collect I will first record the amount of posting of Facebook articles and how that correlates to the age range. However, after this I will look beyond the surface and analyze the persons reasoning and

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