Following+group+or+individual?

=Outline ( Alex,Kyla,Soho, D.K,Hyeunjin)=


 * ====Title : How are people influenced by groups of people ?====


 * Our plan: We would like to see how people make their decisions based on others’ decision. Our group members will have two pictures of Korean female celebrity. One will be sent out using the “survey monkey” and we will have the other one on a poster with two beautiful women. People who take the survey will have to post the stickers on either side that they like better. The purpose of using the “survey monkey” is to see how the respondents choose according their own personal interest. On the other hand the purpose of using the poster is to see how people react differently when affected by others’ decisions.


 * Hypothesis: referring this experiment to our own experience and some of the cases that were done previously, we can assume that the respondents are more likely to follow the groups of people’s decision when it comes to making a decision.

Procedure: 1. Pick two female Korean celebrities with equal popularity. 2. Make a survey on “Survey Monkey” with the two celebrities. Have people put their name, gender, and age. 3. Get results from “Survey Monkey” to make sure the celebrities have equal popularity. 4. Record the results and make a chart based on the results. 5. Make a poster with pictures of the two celebrities and put a made up amount of stickers on either side, with more on the side with the celebrity who had the least votes on “Survey Monkey”. (Remember which side had how many stickers! 18-3) 6. Do the survey at lunch with a variety of people from different grades and gender. 7. Record the amount of votes for each celebrity. Subtract the amount of fake stickers which were originally on the poster. 8. Make a chart based off of the poster survey. 9. Compare the two surveys. (Did people vote with the majority? Or based off their own opinions?)

Conclusion: The experiment done was a survey between two female Korean celebrities of supposedly equal status among people whose ages averaged at about 17. We did two surveys. The first was done on “Survey Monkey” so the results would not be shown to others taking the survey. The results showed that there wasn’t much of a difference between the two celebrities: Kim Tae Hee = 27 and Han Ga In = 29. Thus the difference between the two was 52% to 48%. The purpose of the surveys was to find out whether people would vote with the majority group, or by themselves, so the second survey was done on a poster where everyone could see the results. By placing a made-up amount of stickers on each side of the poster (one amount greater than the other) we would find out if people voted with the majority or not based on which side ended up with more stickers (the one already with the greater amount: Kim Tae Hee = 18, or the one with the least amount to start with: Han Ga In = 3). The hypothesis stated that the results would show that Kim Tae Hee would end with a greater number of votes because people would see the greater amount of stickers, and therefore follow the group and vote for her as well. Our hypothesis was proven wrong however when the majority voted for Han Ga In. The results were: Kim Tae Hee = 18 and Han Ga In = 41 (the fake stickers already subtracted of course). These results do not necessarily prove our hypothesis wrong though because there is still the possibility that because more people started to vote for Han Ga In, the majority vote became for her so people started following that trend instead of the one we had already set. This experiment is a good idea, but there are many things that could have gone wrong. For example, there weren’t a lot of people who actually did the surveys, at least, not enough to really prove the hypothesis. Also, the amount of “fake” stickers that had been previously put onto the poster may have been too little to greatly influence others decisions for their votes. There might not have been a great variety of people who voted for either celebrity (e.g. grade, gender, nationality). However, if this experiment had been done on a larger scale, the results may have proved the hypothesis right. If other studies were done on this in the future, there might be greater evidence to begin new scientific theories and experiments.

Percentage of the celebrity popularity



Results of the majority-rules survey