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Mr. Ferlo
Pols 1100
17 February 2016
Project One
On question number three, the question asked if the candidate had and
demonstrated strong leadership skills. Some of the things that maybe could
have shown their leadership skills are that the candidate was an elected
member of the Taylorsville City Council and an appointed member of the Salt
Lake Community College Board of Trustees. Six people strongly agreed for
Patrick, most of which being LDS. Three being males and three being
females so we got a pretty wide variety on this one as well. Only three
people strongly agreed for Patricia, two being female and one being male.
The majority of the people we surveyed for Patrick and Patricia voted Agree
for this question. Something that was interesting on this one to me was that
4 people disagreed for Patricia, but no one strongly disagreed. Two people
disagreed for Patrick and one strongly disagreed. Again, this kind of goes a
little against our hypothesis because we thought that more people would be
for Patrick more than they were for Patricia and the results for this question
opposed this.
For question number four, the question asked if the candidate has the
kinds of life experiences that will help them understand average Utahans.
Some of their life experiences include a volunteer soccer coach for Salt Lake
County Parks and Recreation, and an active member of their church. I like
how they are a volunteer soccer coach because I think that that can relate to
a lot of average parents out there who end up being the coach for their
childrens soccer teams. All of the people that strongly agreed with this
question for Patricia were under the age of 21. There were four people that
voted Strongly Agree. Three people strongly agreed with this question for
Patrick, however, a good thing about this was that all three were spread out
in three different age groups when for Patricia, they were all in one. Most
people selected Agree when voting for Patricia when most people voted
Neutral for Patrick. When analyzing the results for this question I noticed
that they went along more with our groups hypothesis, however, not as
much as we were thinking. The majority of the votes for Patricia were pretty
high and most agreed, however, the majority of the votes for Patrick were
lower than those for Patricia. Two people did strongly disagree when voting
for Patricia, while only one strongly disagreed when voting for Patrick. The
one that strongly disagreed with Patrick was under the age of 21 which was
kind of interesting to me because in that same age group, when voting for
Patricia, they strongly agreed. This was interesting to me because it shows
that maybe that age group is more for woman leaders than we anticipated.
That age group is also the future generation and leaders of the political world
so it will be interesting to see what happens as far as leaders go as the
generation gets older.
was pretty even as far as it is widespread and ranging between age groups
and whether they agreed or disagreed. It is also pretty widespread between
religions because there were not even very many religions that we had to
use in the first place.
I was slightly surprised with the results that we got because they sort
of went against our hypothesis. For our hypothesis, we stated that we
thought that more people would be in favor of Patrick over Patricia because
of the fact that he is male and she is female and our political leaders tend to
be male. However, thanks to our results, we found out that that may not be
the case anymore. For each question, although they may have varied from
age groups, the number of good votes (Strongly Agreed or Agreed) was
pretty even from Patrick and Patricia while the number of bad votes
(Disagreed or Strongly Disagreed) was actually slightly more in favor of
Patrick over Patricia. Looking at it from a further point of view, however, the
voting seems to be pretty even and maybe almost even a tie. The winner of
the election could go either way in my opinion.
that globally, research has shown that ethnically diverse and divided nations
that elect women rather than men to key national leadership offices end up
with better economic performance. So why isnt America practicing this
today? Some may say that we are. But how? Yes, women have made an
incredible amount of progress in the last century, but we still have a long
way to go. Women today make up about 50.8% of the population but hold
only 18.5 percent of congressional seats and make up only 20 percent of U.S.
senators. So what can America do to change? Some of the worlds leaders
in electing women which include Sweden and Finland make electing women
into office a priority. Most of their political parties prioritize recruitment of
female candidates, some even requiring positive quotas where half their
candidates are women. Why doesnt America have something like this? If
there is concrete evidence that having women in office makes a better
economic performance, why arent we enforcing it like we should?
For future groups doing the same surveys I would suggest to bring
their surveys outside of their family units. Families tend to have similar
political views and understandings. If they spread it outside of that, perhaps
by going to the mall and asking strangers, they would receive a more
accurate representation of what people may actually think and look for. Also,
I would recommend doing some research about the topic beforehand. I
would tell them to go online and look to see how political views are changing
before they form their hypothesis because things regarding politics change
fast. I would also recommend to them to get as much diversity as they
possibly can. They can get this by getting varying age groups for each
survey. They can vary from male and female more accurately and perhaps
spread some more religious variety into their surveys. By adding so much
diversity, the results will be more accurate and they will have more
information to work with.