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Thursday, April 11, 2013

Strategy/Plan for Research

Participants:
I plan to ask students from school, teens whose parents are divorced, and even some adults.  I would like to ask people between the ages of 15-50.  I would I to make 2 different surveys: one for people whose parents are divorced and one for anyone.  Because I will be asking some classmates, the survey will be given to mostly females.  However, I would like to get some male perspectives as well.  In my family alone, my parents are divorced and my aunt has been divorced twice.  I'm kind of on the fence about asking my relatives to take the survey, but I may get some interesting information from my aunt, parents, and even my brothers (possibly).  I am also debating about whether or not I should ask complete strangers.  The results may be more interesting, but it'd be weird to be handing out surveys in public places.

Method and Data Collection:
I would like to have a hard copy of my survey because I would like to hand it out myself.  However, because I don't want to go all over creation to administer the survey, it may be easier for my to create a Google doc or email the document to people.  I feel like administering it only through a hard copy will limit who I give the survey to because I'm not going to travel to many places to give out the survey.

Predictions:
I predict that most of the teenagers I ask will have parents who are still married, but I definitely think that  close to half of them will have divorced parents.  I also predict that people will agree that the media is helping in the increase of divorces.  For the teens whose parents are divorced, I feel that most were at a young age when their parents divorced.  For who they live with, I feel like it will be pretty split.

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