Birds Of A Feather Flock Together

Term Paper Title	Birds Of A Feather Flock Together
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Birds of a Feather Flock Together

Part I: Using the Correlational Method

Translation of the proverb into a testable hypothesis
     �Birds of a feather flock together.�  The meaning of this proverb is that people who share similar interests tend to hang out more with one another than those with different interests.  In other words, if given a choice, people would automatically spend more of their time associating with other people of the same interests.  In testing this hypothesis, a survey will be conducted to see the correlation between the predictor variable-- how often the participants attended group activities--and the criterion variable--how much time they spent together in their spare time.  The spare time is defined as the time outside of the group activities.
     The survey is as follows:

This questionnaire is to see if church is a big part of your life.
0     1     2     3     4     5     6     7     8     9     10
      Not at all                                              Average                                                   A lot
Are you Christian?
Using the scale above, answer the following questions:
If yes, how often do you attend your Christian fellowship activities?
In your spare time, how often do you spend time with the people in your Christian fellowship?

Selection of an appropriate subject population
     The survey is to be conducted on Bruin Walk of the UCLA campus and the participants are the first 100 people seen hanging around the information tables set up for Christian fellowship groups.  There is no anticipated risk involved in conducting this survey.  The participants are told that it is a church-conducted survey to get a general consensus of how big of a role Christianity plays in their lives.

Predictions and/or expected results
     In maintaining consistency with the hypothesis, a positive correlation is obtained between the predictor and criterion variables.  The more the participants attended the Christian group activities, the more time they tend to spend with people of the same fellowship outside of the planned group activities.  That is to say, the participants spent more time with people of their same interests than not.

Part II: Using the Experimental Method

Translation of the proverb into a testable hypothesis
       Similar to the correlational method, the proverb �Birds of a feather flock together� holds the same meaning.  Except in this case, the independent variable, which is the manipulated variable, contains two levels and is measured by the type of video.  The dependent variable to be measured, as a result of the independent variable, is the number of people that watched the video.
     In this experiment, the manipulated variable will be the type of video, whether it is a cartoon or drama.  The participants will be placed in one room containing a television, VCR, one video, as well as board games and such to occupy their time.  For the first 2 hours in conducting this experiment, a drama will be shown and the participants are given the choice to either play with the games or watch the video.  Those who decide to watch the video are then asked to write on a piece of paper their age.  Then for the next 2 hours the cartoon wi...

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