Jacob Bedros

1-8-2020
4th Hr
Personal Research Project

Introduction: My research is about how teens these days no longer

associate with individual parties. Instead, they do not/ vote for who they
like. As in being independent on the party association scheme of things. Now
I chose this topic because we went over this fact in AP Gov this day. I myself
have always understood that I know not a single thing about politics. So
when I heard most other teens are ignorant like me I felt I needed to prove
this with this project being the perfect medium.
Hypothesis: Teachers are more inclined to side with one political party
(either Rep or Dem, Independent, & Other.) While students are not more
inclined to side with a single party.
Method: To test the hypothesis 5 teachers & 5 students will be surveyed.
Age is not a factor in this random selection. The surveyors get asked the
same question, ¨What political party do you most associate with?¨ With
selections being either Rep or Dem, Independent, & Other. The surveys will
take place at Lake Shore High School on Thursday, January 16th, 2020. The
why again is to prove whether teens associate with either of our Two Party
Systems or if they are independents because I myself do not know much
about politics and wonder if my peers will. Along with proving if teachers
lean more towards a Two Party system as opposed to being an independent.
Results: Out of the 5 teachers surveyed 3 chose the Two Party system, 1
chose the Independent choice, and 1 chose the Other choice. Out of the 5
students surveyed 3 chose the Independent choice and 2 chose the Two
Party system.
Conclusion: To summarize my hypothesis it was to find out if more
students would choose Independent than teachers choosing Two Party
System vice versa. My results concluded that the number of those x and y
variables being teachers and students showed x=y in terms of my
hypothesis. Now, this neither proved nor disproved my hypothesis to be
correct as it was a tie. But that does not include the fact that over 60% of
each x and y choices chose the respective party associations as presumed.
So that is a good thing to mention but again my hypothesis was
inconclusive. A problem on my end was not surveying enough people. I do
still feel that more students should have picked Independent than teachers
picking Two Party System, so next time I should try to survey a whole class.
And the teachers individually. Along with the individuality factor, I feel I
should have done this survey online. Not only was almost losing these slips
of paper a number of times an issue, but I feel me hounding over people
waiting for them to choose a system might have swayed them to quickly
chose and not really use the other selection if they truly were. When it is
online people feel much more inclined to take their time I believe. So again
how I may fix my research in the future would be from entire class online
surveys. This should be able to prove my hypothesis if I went this route...