LAB EXERCiSE SiX

For this next blog post, you will obviously see a table below that seems to be a tad-bit confusing. On the contrary, let me explain how this simple grid works. We were told to survey people on campus as a group; however, the task of gathering together when we hardly know each other AND I'm sure have conflicting schedules was impossible. Therefore, this survey was conducted by me alone, simply pestering the poor people that were merely trying to get to class. Overall, I surveyed a total of ten people, hence why all the numbers in parenthesizes in each column add up to that delightful number. In the end, i summoned 6 students, 1 professor, 1 advisor and 2 helpless visitors .. one boy from high school and his mother :D. I hope by now you caught on to how the numbering works. I simply asked them what, when, where and why (obviously concerning some form of technology, still being television). When the "subjects" gave me a response, I marked that column and the number you see in parenthesizes is the final total of responses.

To top of this exercise, Chris has asked us why our answers might have turned out the way they did and i feel like I have quite a simple, and rather obvious, conclusion. For one, the sample size only consisted of ten people and secondly, the majority of my "subjects" were students, therefore, it only focused on a small spectrum of individuals. Most have cable because they are living in a dorm room or apartment that offers "simple T.V." Moreover, the time each individual watched television seemed to rely solely around their school schedule (i.g if they had morning classes, they watched TV after class in the afternoon or night, while those with later classes sometimes started out their day with a humorous episode of The Fresh Prince of Bellaire). Nonetheless, the reasons why each individual plugged into their multichannel TV was mainly for entertainment. Things that were not stressed in this survey that may have altered the results include how frequently one watches TV, weekend versus week day and/or if one watches more TV somewhere else (i.g if a friends apartment offers more channels then cable).

After posting, I realize you cannot see the final numbers and I am having trouble figuring out how to fix this problem. The final responses are as follows:
1. BOREDOM (2)
2. EDUCATION (0)
3. ENTERTAINMENT (4)
4. AVAILABILITY (3)
5. PROCRASTINATION (1)

... note that availability means that the individual may be viewing cable because that is what is provided in their living quarters. Moreover, one individual views networks via cell phone because it is what they have access to to and from and during class.

WHO?	WHAT?	WHEN?	WHERE?	WHY?
STUDENTS(6)	BROADCAST(1)	MORNING(1)	HOME(6)	BOREDOM(2)
PROFESSORS(1)	SATELLITE(4)	BRUNCH 1)	STUDY LOUNGE(2)	EDUCATION
ADVISORS(1)	CABLE(4)	NOON(2)	OFFICE(1)	ENTERTAINMENT(4)
VISITORS(2)	CELLULAR VIDEO(1)	AFTERNOON(2)	BAR	AVAILABILITY(3)
	NONE	NIGHT(4)	CLASS(1)	PROCRASTINATION(1)