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Q from Mrs. Gorski: The research question implies that it is sexist to hold the door open for women instead of men. Is that your intention? Also, your research method is not clear; how will you conduct your research? A. I think our project is geared more towards gender roles in our societies. Do more males tend to help women in need than women help men in need? How does this compare between both societies? Comment from Kegan - It will be crucial to make the book drop convincing, if people think you did it on purpose then the results will be skewed. Comment from Katy: Are you only having the book droppers drop their books in front of people of the opposite gender? To be sure that you actually show that men are more likely to pick up women's books you need to make sure books are dropped by both genders in front of both genders. Comment from Blake: Shouldn't you test your hypothesis for a male dropping books in front of both genders and the same thing for the female in order to have something to compare? Comment from Wivine: be sure to test your hypothesis in a somewhat crowded place so that that when a female dropped her books, then of the entire crowd, a male should come up an offer a hand, and vise versa. Comment from Kristen: I agree, I think the males should drops books in front of males and females should drop books in front of females. I think the males will be less likely to help. >
 * Finalize research question (a.k.a. topic):
 * Sexism in today's society. How will people's reaction differ?
 * Plan research method
 * Observational Research.
 * In order to test our hypothesis, a female will "accidentally" drop her books on the ground as someone walks by. Same goes for the male: dropping books in front of a female. We will do multiple trials in order to get more accurate results.
 * Form tentative hypothesis
 * We thought that American Society will be more ignorant (not help) people. But they said boys would react more to girls, and vice-versa. We used an example from the text (article) we read few days ago. Asian (Eastern) people tend to be more harmonious, but American people are more independent.
 * Figure out how you will stay in touch throughout the duration of the project
 * We will keep in touch with e-mail and arrange times to meet in skype so that we can tell them the deadlines to the project.
 * Literature Review
 * Ian Standard[[file:Literature Review.doc]]
 * Andy Olson [[file:South Korea Lit Review.doc]]
 * Data:
 * [[file:Korean Project.xls]]American data

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Erica and Stacy Report

POWERPOINT STACY ERICA