Thursday, March 29, 2012

research memo

Hypothesis

Many people do not know what it really means to be a Christian. In, high school you do not normally see people acting like Christians, but you ask them they will say they are Christian. Being a Christian means doing the right thing, and standing out from the crowd. I want to know for sure how Christian teens should act. Everyone should know that you are a Christian. I think I will find that most teenagers will claim they are Christians but do not talk about Him or act how they should.



Context

            My target audience for the survey was teenagers. I chose this audience because I am researching how Christian teens act. My data is reliable because all my questions are easy to answer and are not confusing. I changed the question “are you a Christian?” because I did not think it was broad enough. At first I only asked if they were Christians, then I changed it and asked it and asked what religion they belong to. I don’t think that change skewed my results any.








Ages
13
5
14
5
15
6
16
6
17-30
4
40-50
           2
Are they Christian?
5
5
           6
5
3
2
Has an idea of what being a Christian means.
5
4
6
6
4
2
How often they talk about God.
A)       1
B)       3
C)       1
D)       0
            0
            3
            2
            0
0
5
1
0
1
3
2
0
3
1
0
0
1
1
Teens do not act like Christians
True)   5
False)  0
5
0
6
0

6
0
4
0
2
0
How often they pray per day
1)        0
2)        3
3 and up)  2
1
2
2
1
2
2
4
1
1
2
0
2
0
0
2
How comfortable they are talking about God
1)         0
2)         0
3)         0
4)         0
5)         0
6)         0
7)         0
8)         0
9)         2
10)       3
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
0
3
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
4
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
How important is God?
A)       5
B)       0
C)       0
D)       0
5
0
0
0
6
0
0
0
5
1
0
0
3
0
0
0
2
0
0
0











Data Analysis

            What I found from my data was most people say they are Christian, but they said they only talk about God some of the time. Twenty-six people said they were Christian but only six of them said they talk about God regularly. Another thing I found was that everyone except one person had an idea of what it means to be a Christian. The respondents do not talk about him all the time and four of them put six or lower when I asked how comfortable they were talking about God. The other consistence I noticed was that sixteen people said they only pray one or two times a day. If you are a Christian, you should want to pray all day long. 1 Thessalonians 5:17 says to pray without ceasing.

Conclusion

            In, my hypothesis I said that people said they are Christians but do not act like it in school. Based on my data, I would say I was correct. The amount of people that said they were very comfortable talking about God surprised me because I thought one of the reasons people did not act Christian was because they were not comfortable doing it.

Follow Up

            From here I want to research more, and find the answers to all my questions. I think that the next question I need to answer is how you get save. I need to answer this because it is how you become a Christian and get to heaven.  


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