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Conduct Your Own Surveys - Materials Provided

noreply@blogger.com (Random Survey's) — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:30:00 +0000

Random Survey Data is expanding!! Were taking our surveys across the country and we want your help! Now random survey data is allowing for more surveys, more data, more analysis and more ideas to help change the world!! With your participation, and the help of some printable sheets here on the random survey data website [Printable Survey Template, Printable Survey Sign-in Sheet], you can conduct your own surveys in your class rooms, office or on the streets of your community! The questions can be anything you want. I give a sample outline of question ideas here, to help get your creative juices flowing (they may need to be adapted to fit your environment).

How do you like your ice tea sweetened?
How long can you hold your breath?
How long did you sleep last night?

Do you snore or talk in your sleep?
Do you remeber or write down your dreams?

Do you wear a watch? if so, which hand do you wear it on?

How do you typically tell time?

Do you play any musical instriments? What?

Can you read music?
What type of music do you enjoy live?

Most movies seen in a 24 hour period?
Do you typically have matches or a lighter with you?

Do you typically have a pen with you?
Where do you keep your cell phone at night time?

How often do you go camping?
When is the last time you had an oil change?
How many mega pixels is your digital camera?

What brand is your digital camera?
How often do you use your camera?
Where do you store your pictures? (your hard drive, facebook, picasa, etc.?)

How much do you like your school's mascot? (1-10 scale)
What is the last menu item you ordered from McDonalds?
Do you have a daily planner?

There are websites with info about how to conduct a survey, but here at Random Survey Data we prefer an "off the cuff" method. All it really takes is a printable sheet, a pen, a group of people, and a little gut's to pass around a questionnaire. With these tools you can begin to contribute to Random Survey Data's database of survey data! If it's too much to pass around a survey sheet, we made templetes for "Sign in Sheets" as well. This allows for the survey to be disguised as a sign in sheet to be passed around. Names will be ignored for any publication of the data set.

When you have collected all your survey data, send an e-mail to randomsurveydata@gmail.com with a picture, scan or a typed out email of your data sheet and it will be entered on the random survey data website to share with the world!

Do you pick up Pennies off the ground when walking V.s. Favorite Energy Bar?

noreply@blogger.com (Random Survey's) — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 22:20:00 +0000

Do you pick up Pennies off the ground when walking?	Favorite Energy Bar
Yes	Mint Chocolate Clif Bar
Sometimes	Penut butter clif bar
No
Sometimes	---
sometimes	----
No, that’s disgusting!	---
No	---
yes (only heads)	Trader Joes
“Sometimes”	Balance (chocolate mint)
No	cliff Bar
Depends	None
No	No
No	CliFF PB

We start by analyzing the left hand side column, where we asked if people pick up “dirty” pennies off the ground. Suprizingly, we find that bending over and picking up a pennie is not worth the effort. Maybe we should ask the same question for nickels, dimes, quarters, 1 dollar bills, 5 dollar bills, 10 dollar bills and 20 dollar bills. We may start to see a shift of peoples responses from quarters to dollars, when it’s actually enough money to bend over. Asking these questions, or observing people pick up change you throw out on the ground, we can calculate the cost for someone bending over. Here we have a chart of peoples responses, and it clearly shows the most don’t find a Pennie worth bending over for. However, very few do, in fact it seams that if luck is

involved people are more likely to pick up their lucky Pennie. To address these “sometimes” we may need to consider if they are busy getting somewhere, or if they already have their hands full of other items, and a shiny copper Pennie on the ground is the least of their worries. Something, I have always wondered, was how did the pennie get on the ground in the first place? Was it dropped by accident? Was it dropped with a couple friends (ie. quarters, nickels and dimes) and someone left the Pennie for it’s own survival? Moving to the Right hand side of the column...

On the right hand side we can see which energy bars these pennies are being spent on. A couple non-responses for energy bars, leads us to believe that these individuals prefer other types of food that provides sustained energy. Of the small sample size, we can conclude that Clif Bar is a true winner for it’s Penut butter flavor! While one individual is vague mentioning only the store they shop at for energy bars, it’s clear that Trader Joes is a clif bar supplier offering a varity of Clif products!

As a side note, Clif Bar, headquarters picture above, is a noble company looking to sustain it’s company and brand, it’s people, it’s community and the planet! Not many other companies try to be so sustainable in 5 different areas. Clif Bar’s founder, Gary Erickson looks to run his business in a responsible way, not driven only for profit. A very reputable move in my opinion. Not only do they have a fabulous product, but also a wonderful buisness model that is worth supporting next time your out shopping for a energy bar!

Time of Longest Phone Call V.s. Time Since Last Time you Have Changed a Diaper

noreply@blogger.com (Random Survey's) — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 02:39:00 +0000

Time of Longest Phone call	Time since last time you have changed a diaper
3hrs	3yrs
2hrs	Never
~10 min	Never
1 hour	7 yrs.
30 min	Never
3 hrs	1 week
< 1 hr	10 yrs
~2 h	1 h
1.5 hrs	---
2 h	never
> 3 hrs	1 year
~1 hr	never
~1 hr	never
~1 hr	never

Great Data, Great Data!! Here we have some interesting results for our survey data for this past week. We see that most people on the phone keep their conversations under an hour, at the hour at the most. On average we found that people spoke about 1 hour and 30 minutes for their longest recorded phone conversation. This is a significant amount of time on the phone, especially considering battery life these days. It amazes me how long cell phone batteries last, considering they are basically on all the time. I wonder how often, and when people charge their cell phones to prevent from draining their battery. Overall I was a little surprised to find that the longest phone call was only about 3 hours. I would think that a long

distance relationship would increase phone call time significantly, although current technology is preventing this from occurring. We see some individuals who choose not to receive too much radiation in their ear and keep their phone durations to a minimum. R-E-S-P-E-C-T!

Now for the analysis of the Poopy Diaper! The results vary from different individuals from having just changed a diaper, to having never changed a diaper in their life! We can tell who the parents are in the class, and who the aunt's and uncles are and which students are too shy to get involved in parenting. In this data collection we are assuming people are changing disposable diapers and not using the environmentally friendly method of cloth diapers. Although each year their is a world record attempt at the most number of cloth diapers changed in a day: Info link here! Another interesting thing to note, is that no matter how talented these graduate students are, none of these were able to change their own diaper.

If we try to correlate this data, we can see that the "parents" aka the recent diaper changers, have had above average talk time's on the phone. This would agree with a hypothesis that a couple with a child would have had to talk on the phone for a longer period of time, then a single bachelor. Interestingly enough it's just a matter of time, till these baby's getting their diapers changed, will be looking to have a cell phone of their own and talk the night away!

Do you depart from the bathroom sink while brushing your teeth? V.s. How do you navigate your way to a new address when driving somewhere?

noreply@blogger.com (Random Survey's) — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:10:00 +0000

Do you depart from the bathroom sink while brushing your teeth?	How do you navigate your way to a new address when driving somewhere?
Yes	Google or GPS
think so
As above
No
?	Google Navigation
No, but I do bring it with me into the shower from time to time
Yes	Google maps or GPS
Naw Dawg. I don’t	Google maps
No	Google maps
No
Yes	iphone/google maps

	google maps
	google
	Google or GPS
	google maps
	google maps

	google maps

I want to first apologize for the lack of consistent data between participants. I had taken two single questions and turned them into a single survey post. So some individuals were not present on both days the survey was given (horrible survey practice, yes).
One thing that is clear from the data, is that google is a very popular choice among fellow graduate students for a mapping service. Notice too that nobody said paper maps, it seams these have gone the way of the dodo bird. It seams the rise of data plans for smart phones clearly puts static paper maps “off the map” so to speak.

As for people deviating from the sink when the brush their teeth, it seams that it’s split 50/50.
We will have to look into more data to really hone in on the answer to this question!

How do you like your Potatos Cooked V.s. When did you get your last hair cut?

noreply@blogger.com (Random Survey's) — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 03:18:00 +0000

How do you like your Potatos Cooked?	When did you get your last hair cut?
Baked	Nov/2010
Fried	Last March
Raw	Last Year
Mashed	Dec 2010
Baked	Dec 2010
Roasted	Nov 2010
Fried	Jan 2011
Roasted	Dec 2010
in the form of potato chips (w hickory bbq)	Dec 2010
Mashed	Jan 2011

So amazing seeing all these potato's cooked in different ways. Thank goodness we don’t have a potato famine! Overall the top ways to have a potato have to be: Mashed, Bakes and Fried. Let’s take a look at what this would look like in a histogram.

So it’s clear we have a 4-way-tie for the types of potatoes people like. This is more likely due to a smaller sample size, then a equality in preferences. No matter how they are cooked, Potato's are a great source of carbohydrates!
If we pause now, and focus our attention on the right hand collumn, where we see how long it has been since people had their last hair cut. With this data from survey participants we could calculate how long their hair has grown from their last hair cut.Where we assume the average growth rate of hair is 0.5 inches/month and we know the time since the last hair cut, we compute the following Lengths of hair by people since their last hair cut.

So we can see, for the present day, that people let their hair grow a short distance of an inch or two, or will wait a while for a new hair cut. This could be a distinction between males and females in the class. Either way, it’s very interesting to see how often people cut their hair. If only we asked how much they got cut off, we could do a follow up survey and really learn about how often barbershops get busy.

Reading time per Day V.s. Gasoline Octane Level

noreply@blogger.com (Random Survey's) — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 02:28:00 +0000

Desired Amount of Pleasure Reading Per Day	Gasoline Octane Level you buy? (87,89,92)
1 Hour	87
10 mins	87
20 mins	87
45 mins	87
30 mins	N/A
20 min	87
20 min	87
20 min	87
1 hour	91 (don’t hate me)
1 hr	lowest 87
1/2 hr	87

Looking at the data, we see that people don’t read for pleasure too much. On average about 30 minutes is preferred for pleasure reading each day. Quite a depressing statistic considering that would be about the same amount of time watching one sit-com. If only we could increase this to triple or quadruple what it is, imagine the potential!

If we take a look at Octane levels, again we see that the class is filled with a bunch of cheap skates. In fact it makes sense, as why pay more when you don’t have to (unless your car requires it). I think most people choose to get the cheapest octane level, with a smaller fraction choosing 92 Octane, and an even smaller fraction choosing 89.

Favorite Midnight Snack V.s. Time Spent on Facebook This Week

noreply@blogger.com (Random Survey's) — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:31:00 +0000

Favorite Midnight Snack?	Time spent on Facebook this week?
PB and J	1 hour
Bowl of Lucky Charms	30 mins
Almonds	> 90 mins
Potato Chips	<>
no	\
None	45 mins
Ice Cream	10 mins
Quesadillas	Infinity on BB
Protein Shake	0
Cookies	0
Ramen	<>
Ramen	~30 min
It’s not healthy!	Infinity +
Cereal	No Facebook
	~ 60 min
Instant Noodles	~2 hours

Here we have some data that may actually be correlated. If we consider those who are on facebook a great deal, then we can look at what their midnight snack is, and see how much of an expert they are at this late night snack thing, where the calories don’t matter!
Looking at the Midnight snack choices, we can see that quite a few people prefer high sugar items. This may not be the best for sleep, but can help ease a upset stomach. Notice that a few of our guest’s

decided to eat ramen as a midnight snack. This could be a common snack for those living outside the U.S. In general, we see that the midnight snack choice does have a high amount of sugar and calories to go with it. If we shift our attention to the Facebook question, of how much time people spend on facebook in a given week. Surly people are experincing the time warp that facebook put’s us through, when we go online. where 15 minutes in real life becomes like 1 minute in facebook time, because it is just that interesting to read of what other “friends” are doing. The studies on facebook are large and growing! It seams that facebook is playing a big role in our online identies.

If we look at the time people spend on facebook, including the individuals who are opting out of facebook at this point in their lives (it’s inevitable eventually), we see that on average people spend about 50 minutes on facebook a week.

Once again, great data, providing new insight’s into the future of the universe!

Favorite Homemade Cookie V.s. Free Round trip Flight, Where would you go?

noreply@blogger.com (Random Survey's) — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:33:00 +0000

Favorite Homemade Cookie?	Free Round trip flight, where would you go?
Gingerbread	Fiji
Homemade Gingerbread	Irvine, So I can say I went Around the world
Homemade	Went around the world
Chocolate Chip	Europe
?	-
	Rumia
None	None
Chocolate Chip	Taiwan
None	New York
Ice Cream	My home town Tehran
Macadamia	Bora Bora
Oatmeal	DC (TRB)
Ice Cream	Miami
Snickerdoodle :)	Magicland
Snickerdoodle	New Zealand
Chocolate Chip with Peppermint	Timbucktwo

This data was collected right before the winter break, so holiday cookies were a hot topic, as well as vacation time for travel. If we look at the cookie data, we see people prefer typical chocolate chip cookies, and snicker-doodle cookies. To really see what is going on, lets pull up a graph of the data!

As for the ice cream cookies, I am wondering exactly what kinda cookies they are talking about; It’s it’s or Fatboy’s, or a homemade version. I wouldn't mind any of these, but I wish the survey participants could reveal more about their personal life.
In asking our participants where they would like to travel, we found that exactly half of the participants prefer to fly to an international destination, while the other half preferred domestic flights. Some interesting flight choices to places like Timbuktu and the Bora Bora islands. I am surprised nobody cared to go to Sandals resort. In general, we have a diverse set of locations for people to go on vacation to. A couple ambitious folks looking to go around the world for their flight. I have heard of “around the world travel tickets” with certain airlines, but not sure if our question would grant such unconstrained travel.
I think it would be interesting to have airlines offer the preferred cookie of choice on a flight to a specific destination. Looking for a correlation between the data, we find that chocolate chip cookies are preferred by those with an international flight.

An odd activity you can think of or have done V.s. When Hanging out, what is the optimum number of friends to be present?

noreply@blogger.com (Random Survey's) — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 21:38:00 +0000

An odd activity you can think of or have done (besides underwater basket weaving)	When Hanging out, what is the optimum number of friends to be present?
?	Pi^2
	(sqrt(n)+i)(sqrt(n)-i), n= let them define
Fishing in a river with no fish	6
Tight rope walking	infinity +1
Shaving my eyebrows (both) for a scavanger hunt (we won)	5 (including oneself)
none	sqrt(3)
scalloping	?
hanging off the back of a pig delivery truck	Facebook
win a lottery	7
	4
Riding a scooter in one hand and holding a baby in the other hand	5
Cleaned a fridge with the hot water hose of a washer-dryer	Any, with alcohol
Dead Turkey hunting	3
Prayer-gathering at a Club :)	Depends on the friends
	6

With this survey I took my liberty to throw some odd questions at people to try to truly discover some interesting activities people may have partook in as well as asking people how many friends they like to hang out with. These two questions may have a correlation between them that could be interesting to analyze a bit later.

A few of the highlights of some of the random activities people choose were; Dead turkey hunting and a prayer-gathering at a Club. Just odd events really and a few of them seam to have been actually performed before. I appreciate students racking their brain to really develop an odd activity for this survey. Thinking of two or three random activities and putting them into one fun enjoyable activity is never easy. When asking the question, I was looking more for answers along the line of Underwater Basket Weaving, or Disk Golf, or Polo. I was really hoping for some random activity that people actually perform, like Underwater Whistle Blowing, or Slosh Frisbee Baseball, or even Hang gliding! Maybe well have to try again next year with a new set of people to really develop some new activities that deviate from the norm.

This later question comes out of my wonderment from the Situational Comedy development. For example, Seinfeld had 4 main characters, while Friends had 6 main characters. While more current TV shows, such as The Big Bang Theory has 5 main characters and Community has 7 main characters. Each of these presenting a totally different dynamic as well as different situational comedy opportunities. A past sitcom that had only 3 main characters was Two Guys, A Girl and a Pizza Place. It seams with only 3 characters the TV show would be more flexible but limited in the number of core characters story plots. With all these different shows using a different amount of characters, I wonder what the magic number is for a group of friends. I felt one show that was really pushing the limit on how many characters viewers can follow was; L o s t. Lost presents viewers from season 1 with an ample amount of characters to learn about and be interested in. However one thing this show was limited to was that it basically all took place on an Island. Having a single location to build off of simplified the setting, and allowed for further character development of more characters. Now applying this knowledge of TV shows to groups of friends in real life, we can take the Legitimate answers above to find the optimum number of people to hang out with. We could hypothesize this number to be between 4 and 6 based on the popularity of Seinfeld and Friends.

The Average of the 9 valid answers above turns out to be 5.29 for the optimum number of friends to hang out with. This agrees almost exactly with our TV show hypothesis. This dynamic of about 5 people seams to be working well with such shows as The Big Bang Theory, Entourage, and How I Met Your Mother, among probably many more. Although our analysis is short and our data truncated significantly from what it should be, we have come upon, what I believe to be some Profound results!

That being, Individuals have a hard time of developing random activities, yet we humans are at our social optimum with 5 others.

Prefered mode of travel for a distance of 500 miles? V.s. # of times you check your email in a day?

noreply@blogger.com (Random Survey's) — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:55:00 +0000

Preferred mode of travel for a distance of 500 miles?	# of times you check your email in a day?
Car	26
Plane/ Walking	15
Razor Scooter	8
Teleportation	~N(12,15)
Plane	10
plane	3
plane	>30.
Train	>100
plane	every 5 min
Car	>30
Car	>20
Car/plane	8
walk!	n+
airplane	3-5
Air	3
Air	3

In a last minute scramble to think of a survey question I came up with these two questions. Probably not the most insightful questions to ask an eager crowd of people, but here it is.
We can see that most people prefer Airplane or Car to travel 500 miles and that people check their email quite frequently during the day. Although, I hope they aren't checking this email on a plane (unless it’s the free wifi on board) or while their driving a car.
Some students (and post docs) were being a little humours when they wrote teleportation or preferred mode to travel 500 miles being a razor scooter. While I guess a lack of creativity when asking the questions, leads to a lack of creativity when analyzing the data...

When was the last laptop you bought? V.s. Were you FOR or AGAINST Prop 19?

noreply@blogger.com (Random Survey's) — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 18:56:00 +0000

When was the last laptop you bought?	Were/are you for or against Prop 19?
2006	Against
2010
2009
2009	against (I Can’t vote :) )
2010	against, although it would have been interesting to see.....
2008
2004	N/A
2010	against
2009	for
2007	N/A
2007
2009	Against
2010	N/A
2009
2010	For

Great Data, Great Data!!! I love it. Bringing these two questions we really see some interesting topics. In asking the first question, I was really looking at the Ewaste problem, and how often we go through new electronics. It seams cell phones would follow a simple 2 year expiration date due to contracts signed with carrier companies. However laptops should be less prone to this, as they tend to just get slow, rather then have a reason to upgrade. From the data we see that laptops are all fairly recent. With only one person have a laptop that’s 4 years old.

Here at UC Irvine there is a group on campus that looks to take old laptops and refurbish them with a form of Linux and install education software for them to be brought to developing communities abroad. The project is called: Labdoo.org and aims to solve both the digital divide as well as the Ewaste problem with electronics being disposed of improperly.
We now shift our area of study to the much more controversial, Proposition 19. For those of you unfamiliar with the latest California Mid-term election, California proposed a proposition where, acording to wikipedia;

“If passed, it would have legalized various marijuana-related activities, allowed local governments to regulate these activities, permitted local governments to impose and collect marijuana-related fees and taxes, and authorized various criminal and civil penalties.”

The Proposition did not pass. However, with the election over, I thought it would be interesting to see peoples opinion on the issue. I do respect some peoples blank answers, as this could be considered a touchy issue. Overall this small poll gave more blank answers than anything, but using a filter we find the following:
Interesting to see the class agreed with the rest of the states outcome. If we combine these two data set’s and look for a correlation we have to declare it as inconclusive. It would have been nice to see however if those for Prop 19 would have had older laptops, thus adding insult to injury to say that money goes where the altered state of mind flows. Unfortunately that wasn't the case.

Prefered Morning Beverage V.s. Iphone or Android?

noreply@blogger.com (Random Survey's) — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:45:00 +0000

Prefered Morning Beverage?	Iphone or Android?
OJ	Iphone
Tea	Iphone!!
Beer	Windows
Coffee	Blackberry
Juice	Symbiam 3
OJ, NOT beer	Neither :(
Tomato Juice, fruit juice, OJ	neither
OJ	Iphone
OJ	Who wants to pay an extra $30/month for data? I don’t :)
Coffee	ANDROID!
OJ	Iphone
Juice	neither
Coffee, muffin	Iphone
Hot Tea
coffee	neither
Orange juice	X
OJ, muffin	Android
Coffee	None

Once again by sneaking two questions next to the sign in sheet for the weekly transportation seminar, I was able to collect some data! It seams that for morning beverages, orange juice beats coffee for grad students. Here is the break down in chart form:

Notice that 2 people prefer a muffin as their morning beverage. I am not sure if they mix this in a blender and drink it, or are assuming that it goes down the normal way as a food snack. Shifting our attention to the other question, we see that neither iPhone nor Android is dominating the Mobile OS market in our seminar class. I was a bit sad to see the comment about paying so much for data on a mobile phone, because their are cheaper options out their. If we look at the graphical representation of mobile phones in the class room, we can see iPhone is in a close second!

Just as a brief conclusion, it may say something at People with iPhone’s tend to like OJ as their morning beverage. Leading us to conclude that people without a iPhone are more high strung and need that Caffine addiction to get by!

Most Daily Vistited Website V.s. # of TV Shows Watched per Week

noreply@blogger.com (Random Survey's) — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:42:00 +0000

Most Daily Visited Website	# of TV Shows Watched per Week
Slashdot.org	1
UCI.edu dealsea.com and so on mitBBS.com	0
3cat24.cat	3.1415
Google	2
GV	1.35
Google	3.5
Yahoo	1
Google	2
google	-
Google	0
uci.edu	2
Google	0
Google	1
Google	1

In a last minute attempt to collect some data for all you random survey data fans, I made a roll sheet with two bonus questions on it. Luckily the participants were not too grumpy in the morning to participate. The questions were simple, and largely the same answer, but the data reveals how dominant search is in our online activity's. There are a couple news sites and deal gather sites people use occasionally to browse each day, but it seams mainly people are probably are probably checking email more than any actual website.

As for the TV shows watched, people ain't the typical couch potato that most people might think of. There is a significant amount of Zero shows watched, which is really great to see. Knowing people would rather be reading, outdoors, learning, conversing rather than flicking the clicker is just heart warming!

Wheat Bread or White Bread? V.s. Did you fill out the 2010 Census?

noreply@blogger.com (Random Survey's) — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:08:00 +0000

Wheat Bread or White Bread?	Did you fill out the 2010 Census?
Wheat	No
Wheat	Of course, 3 times
wheat	No
wheat (7 grain)	No
wheat	yes
wheat (double Fiber)	No
Please stop these surveys! They are DISTRACTING
wheat	yes!
(i like the distraction!) [arrow pointing to above] Wheat (whole grain	of course
wheat	No
white! but need to save calories for other good food	I don't know, but I am doing it everyday for other people cuz i am working for them
white with wheat	Yah, duh, takes 5 mins
wheat	yes
wheat	yes
don't care	no
wheat	yes and answered the 15 min phone survey
white	yes
wheat	yes-but there is a serious int'l student confound in this
wheat	yes
wheat	magically got filled out for me
wheat	yes, it's illegal not to!

Great Data, Great Data! I have been meaning to find out if people have filled out there census forms for quite some time, and with the professor having the TA teach the class, what better oppertunity to distract the class?!!? It looks like wheat is definatly more common then white bread, as it should be for it's nutritional properties!

One response in this survey cought me a little off gaurd. First, the person that said they diden't care about white bread or wheat bread. Well I hope they have a prefrence, it is an important life decision, and should be thoughtfully thought out.

As with all my surveys, the surveyers have the write to write down anything, and I simply transcribe there results. After all it's there opinion that needs to fit the data, not the other way around! Until next time when I have a cool class to pass out these surveys, take care!

How many Text's do you send in a month V.s. Favorite Past President?

noreply@blogger.com (Random Survey's) — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 05:43:00 +0000

How many Text's do you send in a month (on Avg.)?	Favorite Past President? (not Obama)
<200	JFK
>3500	FDR
<200	Lincoln
around 100	Clinton
<200	Nixon
~100	Lincoln
>300	JFK
5-10	Jefferson
<5	Lincoln
~100	FDR
THIS IS DUMB
<100	JFK
40	FDR
100	BUSH
<5	Clinton
5<T<10	Bill Clinton
500	Bill Clinton
800	Nixon
approx. 1500	Clinton
~400	Carter (l Like Peanuts)

Once again, Great Data, Great Data!!! Thank you to all those who participated. It seams it's really tough to get this class excited about these random surveys. Although it makes it to more then half the class, it seams like the survey get's stuck in quicksand some where among the students and then a RAOK flys along and saves it.

We can see from the data that the class is not too heavy on TXTing. I could safely say that this class looks pretty dilligent. They seam to pay attention to our exciting lectures and stay off the facebooks and on the textbooks. On average it seams these students do not have the unlimited texting plan.

Correlating the data sets, we can see no correlation between the two data sets, but we do see some interesting choices for presidents.

What is your favorite food to cook at home? V.s. Have you ever edited a Wikipedia Page?

noreply@blogger.com (Random Survey's) — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 05:03:00 +0000

What is your favorite food to cook at home?	Have you ever edited a wikipedia page? -If yes, what page, how often? -If no, How does it feel to be a freeloader on the largest encyclopedia ever?
Lasagna	yes, random edits, loop detectors, morgan territory, SDSC, prison break
enchiladas	no, I still use encarta
Fajita casserole	No
Stir fry	No
Glazed Salmon	No, great
fried salmon w/ veggies	no, the best
swiss enchiladas	no, i feel like a REBEL
Pasta	No
BBQ	no, it's great
ramen	no, too lazy
enchiladas	No, i feel like the king of the world
Fried chicken	No, I really don't care to be completly honest
chicken katsu	No, I don't use wikipedia
bratwurst	No, awesome
plain pasta w/ nothing on it	No, Everything on it is a lie
PHO	No, i steal citations and sources
cup noodles	yes I like to vandalize
Korean bbq	No, it's great
tamales	No, it's ok
Eggs	No, and I don't mind
rice	nope, feels great
eggs & rice	no, but i still source it in dreaded MLA format
FRIED chicken	yes, can't remember it was just to F around
noodle	yes, once, change the data on a historical event
Biryani	No, but I should enter wrong info. Lol.

Well In asking this question I really just wanted some ideas to what to cook for dinner. As a second question I tried to correlate if the student is a hard worker and goes above and beyond and edit's Wikipedia articles. As we see the meals, for the most part, are quite simple, and pretty much no one edit's Wikipedia, so our survey dident work out as planned. That's Ok, we need to stay positive for the future survey correlation effects! I hope this survey does give some dinner ideas to the visitors however!!

BONUS SURVEY: I went ahead and included my own mini-survey on the back of this survey to get an idea for a more positive reflection of these surveys. However, this survey was conducted in a different class then the previous survey.

Do you find these surveys Fun, exciting & a creative release of energy?

Yes	No
Check Mark
:)
Check Mark

It's amazing what a little change in wording and suggestion can do in swaying peoples opinion. But really the fact of the matter is, this survey was abruptly stopped by one student, thus forcing the survey to be re-taken in another class of freshman and sophomore college students.

What is your favorite ride at Disneyland V.s. What is the highest speed you have been in a car?

noreply@blogger.com (Random Survey's) — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:52:00 +0000

What is your favorite ride at Disneyland?	What is the highest speed (in mph) you have been in a car?
The Mark Twain Boat Ride	110 Mph
I don't like Disneyland (universal studio is better)	120mph
Space Mountain	110mph
Pirates of the Caribbean	80mph
Indiana Jones	100 mph
Indiana Jones	120
Indiana Jones	115
Space Mtn.	120
Don't like Disneyland
never been there <-- You haven't lived	125
Captain EO! (stick figure picture)	90mph
Space Mountain	115mph
Alice in Wonderland!	110mph
Pirates of Caribbean	120
Haunted Mansion @ Christmas	98 (max speed for a 91' 4 runner
Indiana Jones	107 (max speed for '02 Tocoma)
Indiana Jones	100
Indiana Jones	100 mph
Indiana Jones	110
Jungle cruise or Train ride	90 mph
Can't decide	95 mph
Space mountain	90 mph?

Well once again, we have some spectacular data! Although the sample size is a little small for such a full class room with brilliant minds, we are grateful for any at all. In asking this survey I wanted to find a correlation between peoples favorite ride at disenyland and their thrill seeking side to see how fast they have gone in a car. It's clear we have some true dare devils in the class, with speeds reaching 125mph and 120mph. This is about the speed that a car's governor kicks in. Just briefly looking over the data, we see there is a slight tendency for people to like space mountain and Indiana Jones and to have gone faster than 100mph.

We now take a moment to analyize the Disneyland question for a moment. After all, Disneyland is one of the Happiest places on Earth, so why not study the data a bit more!! So as a group, the most popular ride stated above was Indiana Jones.

So clearly Indiana Jones and Space mountain are the top two rides within the surveyed class. Luckly both of these rides have fast-pass options, and Indiana Jones even has a single rider option. If it's not your birthday, and your still itching to go to disneyland, check out this Disneyland Ride Map with the various youtube videos of the ride on a map. I couldent conclude my discussion on Disneyland without mentioning their crowd control. After the fireworks, they move people so efficiently down main street that they make you feel less like cattle and more like an actual person.

Bonus Survey: We were lucky enough to have a very passionate student to add their own survey to the original survey. The results are shown below, and the analysis is left to you.. (tear drop).

Do you find these surveys annoying + distracting?

Yes	No
Check Mark
Check Mark
Check Mark

What is the Worst Tasting Vegetable V.s. What is the Healthiest Vegetable

noreply@blogger.com (Random Survey's) — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 06:02:00 +0000

In your opinion, what is the worst tasting vegetable?	In your opinion, what is the healthiest vegetable?
Cauliflower	Broccoli
Cauliflower, egg plant	Brussels Sprouts, sweet potatoes
Peas	Broccoli
Brussels Sprouts	Broccoli
Brussels sprouts	Broccoli
Brussels Sprouts	Bok choy - baby ones!
none	Avocado
Artichoke	Avocado
Egg Plant	Kale
none ->they're all good!	Spinach
Radish	Spinach
I LOVE VEGGIES. they're all fabulous +1	KALE never had it? buy it today and have it for dinner.
Raw Fennel	Broccoli
none	Kale
CANNOT CONCLUDE	CANNOT CONCLUDE +1
none	Chinese broccoli
Balsam pear	Celery
Beets	Spinach
Brussels sprouts +1 +1 +1	Kale
squash/zucchini	spinach +1
Kale	spinach +1
fennel	sweet potatoes
Bhut Jolokia pepper	carrots +1
celery +1	Carrots
Bhut Jolokia pepper	kale
onion	spinach
beets	broccoli
celery	avocado
mushrooms	rutabaga
love them All	spinach
carrot	gai lan
Brussels sprouts (cauliflower is good)	broccoli
carrot	carrot
iceberg lettuce	asparagus
bitter melon	asparagus

I would like to thank my current Economics class for this data. It was an exciting first day collecting in this new class room. Many hesitant faces to a random survey being passed around made it all the more fun! As you can see we collected some amazing data, with a huge sample size, which will allow for a interesting analysis!

To begin our analysis, we can look at the wisdom of the crowds and find the answer to our questions about vegetables.

Well, I am sure glad not to see any overlap in these two categories. When it comes down to the correct answer, we can find that nutrition tables present a similar story. In fact, the survey's top 3 healthiest vegetable made it on to the sheknows.com top ten healthiest vegetables. As for the top 3 worst tasting vegetables, only Brussels sprouts made it to the healthy list on sheknows.com. These results are not bias either. We can find similar results elsewhere.

So now that we know which vegetables are the healthiest, let's look at some recipes to exercise what we have learned.

If these recipes don't look good enough, then maybe we should look at how healthy these vegetables are! Did you know that vegetables are a great way to reduce cardiovascular disease.

Now that your aware of how vegetables can help change your life, you might be interested in growing them for free (in a garden perhaps). To get started, just check the current season you will start planting, and find a good veggie to start your garden with!

As for the new class, they seam a little hesitant to be interrupted by a survey during class. Frankly I don't blame them, but the survey is for public science research for the Internet, and thus is a very good cause and worth the distraction. I can only hope that the class takes a liking to the random interview question each day, similar to what we have seen in the past! My fellow classmates are still learning the way of the survey, and how it forces interaction amongst the stranger next to them, yet at the same time makes a bond to another class mate who wrote down the same answer as them. I'm looking forward to a great quarter with some off-the-wall random surveys to give this diverse student body.

If you happen to be in this class, and your results are written above, thank you for visiting. Tell a friend, they will love you for it! I would like to point out, that often time my links infused in the text will usually tell a story parallel to the one on the page, but occasionally it will tell one a little off course. Enjoy!

What is your Gender V.s. What is your favorite Musical Artisit?

noreply@blogger.com (Random Survey's) — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 03:12:00 +0000

What is your Gender?	What is your favorite Musical Artist?
Male	NONE
Male	MF Doom
Male	Rise Against
Female	Beyonce
Male	Weezer (Blue Album)
Male	Led Zeppelin
Male	NONE
Male	Kid cudi
Male	Bloc Party
Male	Lifehouse
Female	Jimmy Eat World
Male	Maroon 5
Male	Edward Maya
Male	NONE
Male	Eminem
Male	The Beatles
Male	None
Female	Kanye West
Male	Blink 182
Female	IDK - None
Male	Andre 3000
Female	Freddie Mercury
Male	Mike Snow
Female	Metric
Female	Michael Jackson
Male	Eazy E
Female	The Beatles
Female	Mr Hudson
Male	Muse
Female	many
Female	I heart EVERYTHING

I would first like to thank my good friend for allowing access to the proprietary roll sheet data. His TA-ing this quarter could greatly benefit Random Survey Data! This data was taken as part of attendance, so I manually converted the names in to a binary male or female category. This could be inaccurate.

As for the data, we can see we have a bias with the amount of males in the class room. But let's not let that effect our analysis. If we shift our attention to the actual musical artists, we see that Rock and Rap is a majority, with a good mix of some other genre. I was sad to see any of these talented musical artists.

The age range for these survey participants is at the junior Level of college, so about 20-22 years old. Sorry for the lack of diversity in the sample population.

What kind of ceiling do you have above you? V.s. How much money do you currently have in student loan debt?

noreply@blogger.com (Random Survey's) — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:25:00 +0000

Again, I used Mechanical Turk for another interesting survey. As explained in my previous post, Mechanical Turk allows for a random sample of people to be surveyed.

What kind of ceiling do you have above you? Do you know if it causes cancer?	How much money do you currently have in student loan debt?
white apartment. Don't know	0
Normal house roof, there are no carcinogens in my roof.	0
Plaster stippled with oil based paint. No, it doesn't cause cancer.	0
pebbled board. no.	0
not sure (i'm renting). No	0
Popcorn ceiling that does not cause cancer	0
Plaster. I don't think it causes cancer. (Had it tested for asbestos when I moved it.)	0
wood. but think there is abestos in the ceiling, and the house has abestos shingles. landlord does not care.	12000
a flat ceiling. I don't know if it causes cancer.	150000
high ceiling, i dont think it does	50000
Drywall. No	30000
Unsure	0
lath and plaster. it doesn't cause cancer	0
An apartment ceiling. I have no idea if it causes cancer.	0
I don't know.	0
no	0
textured paint - don't think so - can't think of any reason why it would	no
popcorn ceiling and no	0
I don't know.	0
spackle	10000
I have no idea on both counts	none
Popcorn ceiling - it may have asbestos in it.	0
Drywall. I don't believe it causes cancer. If it does, there are a lot of people in trouble.	0
Sheetrock	0

This survey produced some very interesting results for us. We see that most the survey takers are uninformed of the type of cealing they have. Most are not even sure if it causes cancer, including Mesothelioma. For those renting, they may be interested in finding more about the ceiling they have, to avoid an asbestos lawsuit.

If we look at student loan debt, we can see that it's not very common among these surveyers to have student loans that are unpaid. However if they do have debt it is a considerable amount. They could be interested in looking into student loan debt consolidation to help with the interest fees.

As for a correlation between these two topics, I thought it would be interesting to look and see if high student loan's correspond to a non-cancer causing ceiling. It looks as if the results are about even for this. Even with a considerable amount of student loan debt, ceilings may still contain asbestos.

A $50,000 Problem Survey: Asbestos Lawsuit, Student Loan Debt, Credit Card debt, Life Insurance debt, or Morgage Refinance fees.

noreply@blogger.com (Random Survey's) — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:25:00 +0000

In response to the budget cut's at my local school, as well as my current classes not providing a friendly random survey environment, I decided to go online for my surveys. I used a service provided by Amazon.com, called: Mechanical Turk. It allows for people to perform simple tasks for micro-payments. I used it to give the following survey.

Question 1: If tomorrow morning you woke up with a problem, which problem would you most want to deal with? (all values are in USD).

$50,000 in Student Loan Debt
$50,000 Asbestos Lawsuit
$50,000 Credit Card Debt
$50,000 Life Insurance Debt
$50,000 Morgage Refinance fees

Question 2: Why did you choose to deal with the problem you choose?

Here are the Results:

Problem to Deal with	Reason for choosing that problem
Student Loan Debt	I can relate to it the most. Seems to be less complicated
Credit Card Debt	Credit card debt can increase quickly because of interest rates. The other problems typically have lower or no interest applied to their amounts.
Student Loan Debt	Because it seems the most positive of all the options. Hopefully after spending this amount of money on tuition, I have tremendous knowledge and can obtain a very well paying job to pay off the debt. Also, I hopefully had many good experiences gained through the education process. An asbestos suit means I'd probably be very ill, credit card debt keeps gaining in interest so the amount is increasing, don't know why I'd have a life insurance debt but it doesn't sound good, and if it involves a mortgage I may be in danger of losing the roof over my head. So the first option sounds the best! Thanks.
Student Loan Debt	I had student loan in past. The loan payments were low enough that I was able to pay it off early.
Student Loan Debt	most attractive (if possible) of the choices.
Credit Card Debt	it seemed the lesser evil and actually fixable
Student Loan Debt	Thought it would be the easiest to handle.
Mortgage Refinance Fees	Because a place to live has always been my first priority.
Credit Card Debt	Because you an declare bankruptcy for credit card debt but not student loan debt.
Student Loan Debt	Because I have 50,000 dollars in student loan debt and it's not so bad. Credit card debt is a lot worse because the interest rates are typically higher. I don't know about the other things.
Credit Card Debt	i don't know
Student Loan Debt	Hopefully got an education out of the debt. Generally a reasonable interest rate.
Mortgage Refinance Fees	Because mortgages are a concern.
Life Insurance Debt	"life insurance debt" doesn't make sense, it's impossible, so I chose it.
Student Loan Debt	It is the only problem that would be something that I might have to deal with soon.
Student Loan Debt	Hopefully there would be the most options available to solve the problem.
Life Insurance Debt	Life must be secured. so that if it contains problems also we must face it.
Credit Card Debt	It's the "lesser of the evils." The others are impossible or nearly impossible to take care of, get help for, afford to handle. There are numerous ways to handle credit card debt.
Mortgage Refinance Fees	because it would mean I had a house
Asbestos Lawsuit	Health issues are important to deal with.
Mortgage Refinance Fees	you're gonna be paying on a home 30+ years, and at least you got something to show for the debt
Asbestos Lawsuit	Because I'd have more chance of debating it in court and possibly not having to pay it; student debt is just student debt!
Student Loan Debt	Student loan debt is not something scary, it's perfectly normal and easy to pay off.
Credit Card Debt	Because credit card debt is very expensive and it's relatively easy to deal with.
Student Loan Debt	Low interest, easier payment terms.

So here we have some very interesting results. It's clear that we have a pretty diverse sample of preferred problems to deal with. Here's a chart to clarify this;

Clearly Student Loan debt is the most popular problem to deal with. This makes sense in terms of interest rates too. If we consider the typical repayment interest rate on student loans, we would estimate it to be around 5%. However, comparing this to typical credit card interest, we know it to be much higher. I have heard of credit card companies typically charging an upwards of 20-30% interest. At this rate, debt rapidly accumulates, unless of course one is using introductory 0% interest credit cards to help decrease their debt.

As for the free response section, I thoroughly enjoyed the 3rd response down, where the person justifies an education and how it (usually) leads to a higher salary. I found the responses talking about Asbestos Lawsuit's quite interesting. It seams that people are open to having this be a $50,000 problem tomorrow. They figured lawsuit's can be swayed either way, allowing them to take a gamble that the $50,000 might go away if the asbestos lawsuit is won. However, I hope this person doesn't overlook the fact that dealing with asbestos can lead to Mesothelioma - a rare form of cancer that has a 'strong' correlation to asbestos.

The life insurance debt response seamed like a way out, as it does not seam to exist. Yet, a life insurance bill that is unpaid, can be considered a debt. Looking at it in another way, insurance may not seam as an important issue as student loans, credit card debt and mortgage refinance fees. After all, at least with mortgage refinance fees, the person has a roof over their head, and are refinancing for (hopefully) a lower rate.

In conclusion, this experience using mechanical turk has been quite interesting, I wouldn't be surprised If I use it again for some more survey ideas. Possibly asking people why they perform HIT's on mechanical turk, or how much money they make on mechanical turk. If you have some other survey ideas you would like to see asked on mechanical turk, don't hesitate to try to convince me!

Amount of Money Spent of Food today? V.s. How much Caffeine have you consumed today?

noreply@blogger.com (Random Survey's) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:29:00 +0000

Amt. of Money Spent on food today (in USD)? (inc. food you bought previously but consumed today)	How much Caffeine have you consumed today?
$1 (breakfast)+$.75(lunch)+$.50(yogurt)+$2.50 (dinner)=$4.75	0.0000mg
$0.50 (breakfast)+$1(lunch)+$0.50(coffee)+$2(dindin)=$4	not enough = 4 cups so far. 2tea, 2 coffee
$1.0+$2+0.5=$3.5	1 cup
$1.5+1+7.5=$10	1
approx. 5$	1 green tea
3.3	0
approx 5$+3$=8$	Zero [drawing of a person smiling, nice job!]
$14 [drawing of a sad face crying]	more than 3 cups. HaHa :)
$10	a pepsi
10	2 cups of tea
Zero, we had a party today :)	1 cup
avg=$15	3 cups
2.60+3.50+1.65=$7.75	2 cups
approx. $6	1 cup coffee
$0	0
$7.65	0
$3.49	2 coffee
$2.50	0
0	0
~$8.00	Alot=> Soda,Coffee, Tea
~$3 in costco groceries	None
$7 USD	2 cups of coffee
$0	1.5 cup
0	0
$6.59	1 cup of tea & 1 cup of coffee
9	1 cup
approx 5.50	none
~$2.00+coffee xpenses	~5 cups(mas grandes)
$10	0
$0	0
$12.23	0 - goodbye matt
100000R, 1000R=1USD	0

This is the last survey given to this class. All good things come to an end, and this class is not limited to that. I want to thank the class for putting up with these surveys through out the quarter. Although sometimes the turn out seamed quite low when people would just pass the survey on without even looking at it, but this turn out is quite large. for a class size of about 45+, we have a large sample population to go from.

Let's get into the data a little bit, first we notice that it's a sad and unfortunate situation to see so much coffee being drunk, however there are a significant amount of zeros along the column that has us give hope to one day live in a caffeine free world! We also notice a significant portion of peoples wages being spent on food each day. However these being the cheep students they are, it seams that the eat quite cheep!

While until I can obtain some more survey data, well see you next time!

How much turkey did you eat over the weekend? V.s. How much work did you get done over the weekend?

noreply@blogger.com (Random Survey's) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:57:00 +0000

How much turkey (and assortments) did you eat over the weekend? (1-10 rating, 10-alot and 1-nothing)	How much work did you get done over the weekend? (1-10 rating system)
9	1
10	1
0	1
5	1
1	1
0 [drawing of person crying]	3 [drawing of person smiling]
0 [:)]	8 [:(]
6	10
7	2
0	2
7	4
9.9	6
2	5
2	4
1
10	1
9	3
11	0
7	1
8	7
3	4
3	0
2	0 ;P
0	4
3	1
8	5
10	1

Well once again we have some very interesting result, with students studying or "partying" over the break. Trully great to be apart of this survey environment! It's clear, that on average, that turkey is detrimental to productivity. It's clear that the less turkey consumed, that the more productive in school related matters the student was. This survey has some key findings that can't be found anywhere else!

What is your Favorite Dessert/Junkfood V.s. How many Surveys can you tolerate in one class period?

noreply@blogger.com (Random Survey's) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:45:00 +0000

What is your favorite Dessert/Junkfood?	How many Survey's can you tolerate in one class period?
Apple Pie A La mode Mint chip	As many as you can +1
Chocolate Mousse	[infinity symbol]
Ice cream	3
pineapple cake	4
A little greedy with 2 surveys, eh?	I'd rather not find out
ice cream	?
ice cream	1
?	?
Tirumisu	......
Pizza and ice cream	[Picture of a spiral sun]
Potato Chips	...
ice cream	1
french fries $ ice cream	1
chocolate cake	[infinity symbol]
jelly	i don's know
pizookie	Let's test it
chocolate	1
Pumpkin Pie	0
Pizza	good question
Pizza	2 are OK!

So this was the second survey given in the class period, and yes I was being a little greedy by passing around a second survey, however this particular class period seamed to drag on and on. Also the following class was cancelled due to a thanksgiving holiday.

So what does the data tell us? Well it's clear that people are not as enthusiastic about taking surveys as I am, however it seams most people have been very tollerant of the usual 1 survey in the class. We can also see that Pizza and ice cream are quite enjoyable to most people! I feel it would be interesting to look at some sort of correlation between the amount of calories the specified desert has, and compare that with the number of surveys a person can tolerate in one class. Doing so we might be able to find a correlation between laziness and motivation!

What is the meaning of life? V.s. What is the meaning of this class?

noreply@blogger.com (Random Survey's) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:24:00 +0000

What is the meaning of life?	What is the meaning of this class?
To give random surveys!	To aquire as much math knowledge as possible!
To explore unknown sites	Remind my memory when I studied math in Korea
I dont know,.. still looking for	To get a High GPA
Competition is the ultimate reduction of the human spirit	To learn convolution in it's purest sense
Indulge	Solve Recker's Homework
Do you want a dictionary def of life? Please refer to websters.com	Learn the importance of owning a wand
Eat+play+sleep+work+...	to review the math I have learned
Laugh	it's required
Love & laugh	[a box with a little house in it]!!!
make a positive impact in the world	learn math
work->$->spent->work->$->spent [Diagramed in a circle]	to get a job
being self sustaining	getting my degree
Don't know yet	Learn the meaning of life!
be happy and make people happy and help them	how to deal with numbers and graphs when you want to make decision based on them
Happiness, education,kindness, awarenees, thankful of god	Fun :D
be happy	learn engineering math concepts
what is life?	to copy homework
Sex, Drug, rock & roll	shit
Fun, Love [pic of a heart with arrow through it]	I have no Idea!
give me $500 to tell you	Null!
help others	"sero, sero, sero"
is there one?	not sure
42	42
world peace	not sure
Live it to the best!	No clue! Pointless

W o o t W o o t!! Wow, what amazing results we have for tonight's survey. This class is definatly making the most of these surveys. They are really searching deep within their hearts to give a well thought out answers. I am happy to see some people put "help others" and "world peace" for the meaning of life, what optimism! We can also see that people are rather positive about our math class. This reveals that overall the class has a positive attitude heading into the final exam! I went ahead and passed around another survey during this same class, this survey can be seen here.