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ARTICLES BY:

Evert Van Lancker

Valentine Vancayzeele
Johannes Landuyt
Steven De Wael
Thibaut Schollaert

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Introduction to our Risk Report

We took a survey about risks in our

class. We wanted to see who the risk
takers in the class are. So we came up
with some questions. We immediately
started brainstorming about which other
questions would fit the best in our
survey. We chose questions about all
different kinds of things of taking risks.
We had some normal questions like
Which transport mode do you
usually use? But we also had some
strange questions too like Would you
send naked photos? To take our
surveys we used Google Docs. With this
useful platform, you can make different
types of questions so we have used the
several ways of phrasing. Some were
yes/no questions, but we also asked
some multiple-choice questions or
questions to answer on a scale from zero
to ten. To some of the questions the
interviewees could answer a question
only with one reply and for some
questions they could answer with as
many answers they wanted. We made
each question required so that everyone
had to answer to every question. In the
last question we asked, our
interviewees, to fill in their name. We did
not expect some of them would really
give their names.

We tried to keep our survey a little airy

by inserting funny questions or possible
answers. Some examples are:
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In the question of your favourite

animal you could chose for your
brother.
After the question about naked
photos asking for their name.
By the question about their gender
their where options ( dont know
yet/ mixed)
..

Our report is constructed in this way:

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We will explain you why we posed

the question.

We will tell you what the question

has to do with risk.

We will show you the results by

using a graph.

We will give our review about the

results.

On the next page, you can see our

survey we published.

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How many cigarettes do you smoke per day?

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Male or Female ?
To properly start the survey we inserted
an easy and general question, the gender
of the interviewee. The interviewee had
three options: male, female, dont know
yet and mixed. As we said before, we
wanted to keep our survey funny and
interesting for the person who fills it in.
Thats why we have inserted two more
options, to make people laugh. We dont
show the options in the pie chart above
because none of the interviewees chose
for one of these two options.
It may seem an unimportant question but
based on the results of this question we
could perfectly interpret the other
questions. Because of this question we
could see the differences between the
replies of two sexes.
As we can see on the pie chart, based on
the results we have received, we can see
that men have filled in our survey more
than women. 53,3% of the people who
answered to our questions were men,
while 46,7% were women.

Male or Female?
The first question of our survey is
about the gender of the interviewee.

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The use of condoms

We examined the use of condoms in our class. This is our
report on the use of contraceptives.

We can conclude that 53% of the people who responded to

our questions have a long-term relationship with one
condom while having sex with his or her
Every partner.
child gets sexual education in
primary school. They were taught that sex
contains the risk of getting a sexual
transmitted infection such as aids,
chlamydia and HIV. The teacher taught
the children to use condoms to reduce the
risk of those sexual transmitted
infections, even when the couple is using
another method of birth control, because
a condom gives the best protection
during vaginal and oral sex.
We asked our classmates their opinions of
using condoms during sex. We were a bit
surprised with the results.
From the 15 results, we can see that 8
people, or 53 percent do not use a

partner. Three of them (20%) do use a

condom and one answered that it
depends on the situation.
Maybe we can conclude that 53% of the
people who responded to our questions
have a long-term relationship with one
partner.
We can only give one advice: use a
condom as much as possible. Especially
when you are into one-night-stands and
have more than 1 bed partner.
In September, I read an article in The
Independent that there are at the
moment 1.000.000 Erasmus babies.
These are babies from people who had

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53% do not use a condom while having sex with his or her
partner.

The graph above shows us the results of our survey. 15 people filled in the online survey.
3 people tell us they use condoms when having sex with their lover, but 8 people do not
use a condom. We can conclude that these 8 have a long-term relationship with their
boyfriend or girlfriend.
For 1 person, using a condom or not depends on the situation. For example whether he
or she is drunk or not.
3 people did not want to give their opinion.

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Where do you live?

The place where you live can affect the risk you have.

Which is the big city closest to where you live?

In our survey we have five people that
live close to Ghent. Ghent is also the city
where our school is based. Living close to
your school reduces a lot of risks. So we
all know the most important streets and
we can navigate ourselves in many parts
of Ghent. The only high risk of living in a
big city like Ghent is that your bike can be
stolen, a lot of students steal bikes to
have cheap transport through the city.
Another city is Bruges, also five
respondents live here. Bruges is a very
touristic city with a lot of tourists and also
a lot of cozy bars. But sometimes going
out in Bruges could be very dangerous,
for example the knifing of Mikey Peeters a
couple of months ago. Mikey Peeters
didnt do anything wrong, but he was the
victim of meaningless violence.

Another big city is Antwerp, four people

that filled in our survey are living close to
Antwerp. Antwerp has a bad reputation
about the criminal activity. The highest
risk in Antwerp is to get pickpocketed.
People walk against you and steal your
wallet before you even notice it.
At least one person lives close to SintNiklaas. Its the smallest city if we
compare it to the other three. Sint-Niklaas
has the biggest marketplace of Belgium,
on the marketplace there are always
many activities, for example: soccer
matches of the Red Devils on big screens,
beach volleyball tournaments, The
biggest risk here is also to get
pickpocketed. On big events with a lot of
people, this can happen to everybody.

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Use of transport
In this survey, one of things we have
analysed, was about the modes of
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We wanted to know how

students transport
themselves. So we
asked our interviewees
which transportation
mode they use most.
We wondered how students transport
themselves from home to school. So we
asked our interviewees which
transportation mode they use most.
Being in traffic involves a lot of risks.
According to the world health
organization, every year there die about
1.24 million people on the roads.
According to statistics from the
government Belgium, in 2013, there died
724 people in traffic, 4.947 people got
heavily injured and 49.020 people got
slightly wounded.
When we take a look at the graph we can
conclude that the biggest part of the
students or 53,3% are using a car most
frequently. Another conclusion is that we
can see a slightly difference between the
two sexes. Especially women will take the
car to transport themselves. Five out of
the seven women confess that they use
the car very frequently. The other two
female interviewees takes a bike or go on
foot. None of the female interviewees
make use of public transportation. While
women take mostly a car, men mainly
use public transport. The other part of the
interviewees take their bike or go by foot.
As we already mentioned before, being in
traffic involves a lot of risks. The risk
depends on what type of transportation
mode you use. Annually there are more
and more car accidents, but pedestrians
and cyclists are most vulnerable in traffic,
especially when they are not wearing a
fluorescent jacket or a helmet.

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Conclusion: More than half of the students take a car frequently when they have to
transport themselves instead of using their bike or public transport.

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If you have a test, do you

stay home the night
before?

We also wanted to know how responsible students are

when it comes to schoolwork.
A student who is living in the city where
he studies, costs annually about 12.000.
The budget goes to the rent of his or her
flat, books, food and of course going
out. We know that students like to go out
from time to time, about two times a
week. We wanted to know if students
would still go out if they are having a test
the next day. So we asked our class and
we came up with some remarkable
conclusions.

One of the conclusions is that more than

60% of the people would go out the night
before a test. This means that only 40%
of the interviewees would stay at home
before a test.

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After screening the results, we came to a remarkable conclusion. Only 40% of the
surveyed students would stay at home the day before a test.

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We also wanted to insert a question in our

survey about the current events. As
everyone knows, the last few months we
had to deal with an outbreak of a new
virus in West-Africa: Ebola. We all know
that Ebola is a terrible virus which has
cost already many lives. According to the
UN agency there are now worldwide over
10 million people who got infected and
4.922 people who died by the virus.
With this question, we really wanted to
know who the real risk-takers in our class
were. We tried to examine this by
inserting a tricky question in our survey.
Suppose you win a free safari trip to a
certain destination, but in the country of
destination there are a lot of people
infected with the virus Ebola. Would you
make the trip?
The examination showed us that none of
the interviewees would dare to make the
trip. This because the chance of getting
infected is too high. Men (53,3% of all
interviewees) as well as all women
(46,7% of all interviewees) who filled in
our survey have answered no on this
question.

Ebola
With the next question we wanted to
know who would take the risk of
getting infected with Ebola.

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If you win a free safari trip

to an Ebola country
would you go?

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If you go on winter trip,

what would you prefer
doing?
Going on winter sports in the free week
after the exams of January is the perfect
week for most students. There are many
agencies that provide buses to several ski
resorts at students prices.
We asked our class what they prefer
doing when they go on winter trip. Only
four of the six possible answers were
chosen. Langlaufing and sledging arent
the sports our classmates are looking for
when they go to Switzerland or Austria.
Although these are the less risky options
in our question.
When you chose for langlaufing, you
wouldve had a very physical intense
week with some bruises on your feet in
the end from sporting. And the people
who chose sledging in favour of skiing or
snowboarding could experience some
hard falls but will usually not end up in
plaster.
So in our top answers we find hiking back
in place four with only one vote. Hiking is
like walking but more intense. There are
some risks involved like falling off a cliff
our mountain.
On the third place we find snowboarding
which is a small surprise to me. In our
generation, snowboarding is found to be
cooler than skiing, but many still prefer
skiing in favour of snowboarding.
Probably it is because we all learn to ski
first. We also do not want to spend a
whole week to learn a new sport. We want
to spend our time with our friends and to
explore the skiing area. Another reason is
that skiing is a sometimes faster than
snowboarding.

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On a shared first place we have skiing and aprs skiing. This makes sense because these
two belong to each other. After a day standing on your two skis, you deserved a
refreshing drink. Mostly alcohol but it is therefore not far to the hotel anymore.
Nevertheless this involves some risks. When you drink alcohol, you react and slow and
your estimations can be wrong. So more risks to ski against another person on your way
back to the hotel or you can hit a tree or dont see a bump on the track. We can
conclude that most of our class choose to live dangerously when it comes down to
choosing a certain winter sport. But the most dangerous options can also be the ones
where you are having the most fun.

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Sexting

Do you send naked pictures of yourself?

With the next question we wanted to
know who would take pictures of their
naked body and send them to other
people. And in the results you can see
that most people are not doing that. The
only exception is sending naked pictures
to their boyfriends or girlfriends. We were
surprised that nobody answered only on
Snapchat because we thought there are
a lot of people who think that when you
send something on Snapchat, nobody
else can see this picture. This is a huge
mistake because all the pictures sent by
Snapchat are stored. Also, there are some
third party apps for jailbroken devices to
save the picture. The reason why we
asked this question in the theme of taking
risk is because if you send a picture of
yourself naked to someone you dont

know very well, you know that you can

get in trouble with that. When people
send a picture to their boyfriend/girlfriend
they dont realize that its also a bit risky.
If the relationship breaks they can
blackmail you with these saved pictures.
And once the pictures are going viral, it is
almost impossible to stop it. We can
conclude that we have a class who knows
what can happen if they do something
like sending Snapchat pictures of
themselves without clothes on. Sending
pictures of yourself naked is called
sexting.

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Pets
What are the favourite animals in our class?

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When we look at the chart, made of the

results we received, we cant deny that
the number one favourite animal in our
class is the dog. Nine out of fifteen people
who took our survey, chose the dog as
their favourite animal.
Other options than choosing for the dog
as your favourite animal were: a walking
stick, a snake, a spider, a turtle, a cat, a
horse, a rabbit, your annoying brother or
you hate animals and click on this option.
The second most loved animal in our
class was the cat. Strange is that only two
people voted in favour of the cat. So now
we have resolved the age-old argument
between which animal is preferred most
as a pet. We all know Belgium is a dogland. Cats can be nice in their way but the
Belgians look for loyalty of their pets and
so the decision is easily made. Also a cat
can scratch your furniture, so thats
something to think about if you to choose
between a cat or dog . But when you
chose for a dog, youll have to watch out
for holes and dog faeces when you take a
walk into your garden. But when you go
to the dog whisperer or dog school, you
might reduce the chance of these
excesses of your loyal dog.
Nice to see is that the cat got competition
of the rabbit. They share the second place
with their two votes each. A rabbit is
known to be a completely harmless
animal you can have at your home.
Unless if you let it walk free in your home,
you have to watch out for these little
carrots they hide for when winter is
coming.
Number three in our survey is the walking
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most boring animal you can have, based

on our survey. When you buy an animal
like this, we think that you will be safe
with your furniture and the rest of the
house.
To finish, we also have one person who
hates animals. This can be someone who
had a really bad experience with a dog for
example, or just someone who is allergic
to everything that belongs to the animal
kingdom. We guess we will never know
but its a little bit of a surprise that there
are people out there who really dislike
animals. We guess they want to play it
very safe when it comes down to having a
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How many cigarettes do

you smoke a day?
Alongside the health risk smoking causes,
it also involves a certain budget risk.
These days a pack of cigarettes costs a
lot of money. Especially when you are a
chain-smoker.. Because they have to buy
their cigarettes, smokers will have less
budget for other expenses.
This involves a certain risk. For example
when your car breaks down or you have
an accident and cant go working
anymore, you need to have a reserve
capital to maintain your livelihood. A
chain-smokers will not have built up this
reserve other than non-smoking people,
unless these non-smokers have other
addictions than smoking.
The last few years smokers have reduced
in numbers. The many laws and
campaigns have paid off and the youth is
more aware of the consequences of
smoking. Whether they have grown a
backbone or given less pocket money, the
youth has become more aware.
When we look at the chart, we see that
our class is taking no risk in smoking.
Only three people out of fifteen do smoke,
and not with non-smokers around them.
From the fifteen students, twelve do not
smoke. One student smokes about four
cigarettes a day, another smokes five a
day and the third student smokes ten or
more cigarettes a day. I think we can call
the last one a chain-smoker.
So only three people take a risk in our
ninth question of our survey. I can
conclude that this is a success for our
generation.

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Gaming behaviour
Which games do you play on PlayStation or other
platforms?

In our tenth question, we asked if the

person does play on any game console
and if they do, which sort of games they
play. Most people in our class grew up
with a game console. Others started
playing in their high school years and only
a few have never touched a controller.
Many parents got worried and banned the
game consoles out of their homes.
In our class we see that there are still
some gamers. Most of them play sports
games. Second comes the shooters and
the people that do not game. Third are
the racing games and to finish there is
one person who plays puzzle games.
So in this question, the people had the
chance to cross more than one option.
Gamers usually have more than one
game to play. Otherwise it could get
boring always playing the same level or
storyline over and over again.
We see that seven people chose for
sporting games. Examples are FIFA, NBA
2K, Wii Sports, etc. The risk in these
games is only a small rage when you get
a goal against you in the 90th minute on
FIFA. Six people told that they play

shooter games. Battlefield, Call Of Duty

and Medal of Honour are the most
popular. The risk here is only some
shouting and slamming the door behind
you when your mother calls you for
dinner. Three people play racing games
and only one puzzle games. The risk in
these games are very minimal.
Also six people in our class do not game.
In my opinion, we are the generation that
grew up with a broad range of game
consoles and many different games to
play. We could not ignore it and so we all
have ever tried it at least once in our
young lives. Some stay interested in
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General Conclusion

Our class is not really risk-taking

Our class does not kick on taking risks. We think we can be assured.
Some of them smoke, but only one of the smokers in our class
smokes more than 10 cigarettes a day. Maybe he can think of
quitting, because smoking 10 cigarettes a day is tending to be a
chain smoker.
Sexting is also not a trend, because we all know the risks of sending
pictures of yourself naked over the World Wide Web.
Our classmates do not like dangerous animals as pets. Most of them
keep it with a dog or a cat. The use of drugs and alcohol is very
limited and we take full responsibility for our actions, behaviour and
for school, as proven on the results of going out the night before a
test.

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http://www.vad.be/media/134858/perstekst_studentenbevraging.pdf
http://www.nieuwsblad.be/article/detail.aspx?articleid=QG3G0F8A
http://www.who.int/gho/road_safety/en/
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