Quiz 10: Results and Discussion From My Study

Results: I found some interesting things after I got my surveys back to see how the participants felt about how much the signs of aggression has changed in the past decade. As far as the participants' answers about how much violence in video games, a possible cause of aggression, has changed in the past decade, eight of the ten participants said that it has increased a lot or little bit over the past decade. When it came to the question of how much violence in movies and in television shows changed in the past decade, the answers were relatively similiar to the answers that they said about violent video games. Once again, eight of the ten participants said that it has increased in some sort of fashion, while the other two participants felt that it hasn't changed at all. As far as the participants' answers about how much poverty in the world has changed, only two of the participants said that it has increased. Even though, one of these participants that answered this way actually came from an African country. Seven of the other participants said that it has stayed the same, while one participant said that it has decreased a little. When it came to talking about indirect aggression this decade, five of the participants said that indirect aggression hasn't changed. But, the other five said that indirect aggression has either increased a little or a lot. When it came to the participants telling about their opinions about how much signs of aggression have changed in the past decade overall, more than half of the participants said that this has increased in the past decade. The other three participants said that this has actually stayed the same the past decade. One of the most interesting things about this study was that there was only one time when the one participant put down an answer where something that has to do with aggression has actually decreased the past decade. For all of the rest of the answers, all of the other participants either said that something having to do with aggression either stayed the same or increased in some sort of way.


Discussion: Looking at the answers to the questions of all of the participants, it looked like that the participants really agreed with my hypothesis that signs of aggression in people has increased in the past decade. My questions on the surveys had to do with the possible causes of aggression and the different effects that can occur when someone has aggression in which most of the participants' answers said that certain things having to do with aggression has increased. It would be interesting to hand this same survey out to possibly hundred people or even more than that to see what their answers might be. If those hundred or so people actually put the same answers like my ten participants did, then this would probably prove my hypothesis even more. One additional question that would be interesting to ask the participants on the survey would be which country were you born in. I think that it would clarify some things about how much poverty has changed in the past decade. Most of the participants from the United States would probably say that poverty in the world has stayed the same or has decreased, while most of the participants coming from other countries would probably say that poverty in the world has increased in the past decade. With video game violence, it would possibly be vice versa compared with poverty especially with video games being more prevalent in the United States. It would probably be most of Americans saying that video game violence has increased, while most people from foreign countries would say that video game violence has stayed the same. With how the answers to my surveys ended up turning out, I feel that my hypothesis was proven to be right.