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Originally Posted by KickAssClown
I am going to go ahead and perform a socialogical experiment. ... I am going to make a sandwhich board sign that explains my situation, and that asks for charity, alms, donations... my sign will be asking for money to make bills, and feed myself. ... It will say on it "This is a socialogical experiment." and explain the details of my situation. Such as my aims. ... It will show the data collected from the previous days. The ammount I've made towards paying the months bills, and the total ammount of money I've made in performing the experiment.
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Sociologically speaking, it's interesting and a cool idea (I personally like the stats part...), but most people won't read your board all the way through if it's too long and has too much data. Heck, I would be led to believe that a significant portion of the groups who will have visibility to your board won't know what sociological means.
Say something like:
EXPERIMENT:
I'm out of work. Here's why (although, the why part is a bit tricky and VERY subjective).
Below are my current stats (as of last night's tally):
$ collected
# people who gave
# days trying
Maybe average donation based on that would be interesting???
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Preferably I would like to collect statistics on the people who donate. Gender, ammount donated, age, and wheather they are home owners, renters, or other.
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That's too much, and people won't be willing to share personal data. To keep your numbers going, only measure things that you can obtain w/o asking... i.e. genders and approximate ages (ranges like <18, 18 - 30, 30 - 45, >45...). If you try collecting things like renters, owners, etc., you may be lucky enought to have 5% of your participants share, but that's not enough and you won't be able to draw any valid conclusions from it.
Also, from a morality standpoint (subjective too, I know), you have to realize that you are likely to convince others that this mooching off others thing is okay... Heck, it's scientific... Not such a positive thing.
Overall though, keep the setup as simple as possible (this will also help control for extraneous variables, in addition to making your life better as the researcher). You might even setup a follow-up experiment in like 2 or 3 months, keeping EVERYTHING the same, except the story of why you're doing it, see how that effects the collection total...
