Research Memo #1

Results:

Hypothesis:

Most people live their life being optimistic; as a result to this I believe more people will be happier being optimistic. But being an optimists may cause them to get there hopes up for things that we know will not happen. So the people who are realist will most likely also live a mostly happy life. The people who are pessimist will defiantly live a depressing life. If you wake up every morning and always look toward that bad side of everything, you will not be happy. For example, when the Optimist wakes up he will believe that he will live happily throughout the entire day. When the Pessimist awakens he will think that this is the day that he will die and there will be no happiness. When the Realist wakes up he will get prepared for the day and pass by whatever life throws at him. Therefore, as a Realist, I believe people who are optimistic will live a happy life style, the realist will live a true lifestyle, and the pessimist will live a depressed lifestyle.

Context:

My survey that I sent out to get information from ended up bringing me a lot of good facts. The target audience I gave the survey too was anybody with the knowledge of the subject. I chose that group of people because beliefs can be held by anybody, any age or gender. The results I got in return are valid. I know this because everybody wrote down information that seems reasonable, everybody who took it, took it respectively and truthfully. It is biased though because everybody has their own opinions, but it's still valid because it is their opinions I wanted.

Question # 1	A-15	B-8	C-2
Question # 2	A-8	B-17	-
Question # 3	A-21	B-4	-
Question # 4	A-17	B-8	C-0
Question # 6	A-12	B-3	C-10

Data Analysis:

The data that I received from my surveys was interesting. Question one asked out of the three choices, optimistic, realistic, and pessimistic, which one would you describe yourself as? Fifteen people said Optimistic, eight said Realistic, and two said Pessimistic. I thought this was interesting because I thought more people would say realistic. Question two states, do you feel Optimistic people are hidden from truth? Eight people said yes, seventeen people said no. Like in the first question fifteen people said they were Optimistic, so possibly all of those people didn't want to write that they were hidden from the truth. Also was interesting. Question three asked, do you feel as if Pessimistic people are hidden from the truth? Twenty-one people said yes, four people said no. Question four states, out of the three choices who do you think lives a happier lifestyle? Seventeen people said Optimistic; eight said Realistic and Zero said Pessimistic. This was interesting and valid. Question six asked, out of the three, which one do you think deals more with false knowledge? Surprisingly twelve people said Optimistic, three people said Realistic and ten people said Pessimistic. I found all of this information useful and valid.

Conclusion:

As my results show my hypothesis was partially correct. I thought that more people would lean towards Optimistic and as my results said, that was correct. As for realistic, I figured a fair amount of people would choose that. And as for Pessimistic, rarely anybody chose it, as I expected.

Follow Up:

 Now that I have my research memo number one completed I have already started thinking about research memo two. For the next memo I want my fact and information to be a lot better and most of all have more accurate questions. My research question, who do you think lives a happier life style, is going to be my next big topic. As a result of this research I have not changed any research questions. All of my information fit in just about perfectly and was valid