Sarah,+Priscilla

Comment from Kegan: You need to be sure to make the "book drop" is genuine. Your results will be skewed if people know that you dropped them on purpose. Comment from Max: You may want to consider where the book drop takes place, depending on if it is at a collge campus or a mall could scew your results somewhat. Comment from Blake: Going off of Max's comment, you should also make sure that the places you perform each part of the experiment are similar in terms of social environment. Comment from Andy: Consider doing each test during the same time of day. Doing it right after school, people may be more inclined to help a person due to things had happened earlier in the day. Comment from Kristen: I think that possibly the age of the person that helped pick up the books might be important based on how they have been taught. Comment from Wivine: Consider the fact that even if you are doing the experiment in a crowded place, it might be more likely that only one person will help you because if someone walking by already sees someone helping you, they'll feel like they're not needed. Comment from Ian: The atmosphere you choose to drop the books in will greatly affect your results. Choose somewhere that is similar in Seoul.

Question: Will people be less inclined to assist someone if they are in the presence of a companion or group? Research plan: An actor will drop their books when only one person is around and we will record if that person helps them pick up their books. The actor will also drop their books while accompanied by a friend, and we will record if anyone helps that person. This should be done in a place where the actor is not known because that could affect the results. Hypothesis: People will be less inclined to assist a person who has dropped their books when in a crowd, because the bystander effect will take place, causing them to assume that others around them will lend a hand. This phenomenon will be more prevalent in American society than Korean society because society and connections are more valued in Korea while individualism is more highly valued in the U.S.

I will be conducting my reasearch over the next four days on our college campus near my school. The participants will primairly contain college student ages 18-24. I will conduct this test between the hours of 10 o'clock and 11 o'clock. I will have the same person drop the book every time or at least keep the gender of the person consistent who is dropping books. I will try to keep tabs on the gender of the participants as well and try to get an even amout of females and males.

Here is my data

And here is mine; exactly the same as what I sent you. [|Sociology Experiment Data (Priscilla).pdf] [|Sociology Research Presentation (Priscilla).key]