Outliers Survey

All throughout the world, people use surveys to collect almost any kind of data they need. Restaurants will use data to see how customers like their food, schools will use surveys to see what student’s opinions are, and places like car dealerships will use surveys to ask their customers how the service was on a particular day. Data surveys are used everywhere. The world today does not realize how much survey’s come to use. In English 1102, we conducted a survey from five different classes to see how us as individuals stood out among each other. We were able to classify one another as normal or an outlier.
A “normal member” is someone who fits into the average population of the survey. This means the person answered what most of the class answered. …show more content…
In this case, this survey was used to point out the differences between students and whether they were normal or outliers within a group of people. As I stated earlier, I believe that the reason most people would fit into the normal category is because the same age group came up with these questions. We all think a like in some way and since were all college students a lot of us do the same things as well. I believe that the process was well generated and the questions were written well. It is just that the questions all reflected the age group. I believe that if a broader set of questions were asked there would have been more outliers and more to explain about the survey. This survey impacted me because it really showed me how so many people in the world are alike. There are so many duplicates of people and not many people stand out anymore. A lot of people answered the same answers to different questions. Then again it could just be the age group that was taking the survey. We all feed off of each other so we all sometimes think a like. There are some outliers but there was not many. Therefore, this survey was conducted in a good way, I just believe it would have been a little different if a majority of freshmen did not make