Background, Problem, and Hypothesis
On August 29, 2005 a massive hurricane struck the gulf coast damaging billion dollars’ worth of land, and killing millions of people. Hurricane Katrina caused so much damaged to people mentally and emotionally. This research study shows how different type of people respond to the question, how much aid was received by different racial and economic groups. They were testing if the social economy statue was a factor that changed the results of how much aid was given to the African Americans vs. aid given to Caucasians. White Americans believed that the governments slow response had nothing to do with race it was more about social economic status while Black Americans believes that race was the major factor. …show more content…
They also revealed that the pew research was inaccurate due to the way they presented information to the public. The pew research used indirect questions and limited the answer choices to agree/disagree/uncertain which made the research questionable, because they could not find the actual perspective of individuals. They presumed that White Americans received faster aid then Black Americans. However, De la Pena et al (2010) conducted in his studies that through his research he found out that race was a factor and so was socio economic status. More percent of Black Americans assumed that race was the main factor for the slow response of the government, while White Americans believed that socio economic status was the main factor. There were both direct and indirect questions to find out people’s opinion and perspective on the factors that played a big role in the governments response. From this research it was concluded that many Africans Americans and white still look at this world in a different perspective. They won’t notice the many similarities among them yet they will see every
On August 29, 2005 a massive hurricane struck the gulf coast damaging billion dollars’ worth of land, and killing millions of people. Hurricane Katrina caused so much damaged to people mentally and emotionally. This research study shows how different type of people respond to the question, how much aid was received by different racial and economic groups. They were testing if the social economy statue was a factor that changed the results of how much aid was given to the African Americans vs. aid given to Caucasians. White Americans believed that the governments slow response had nothing to do with race it was more about social economic status while Black Americans believes that race was the major factor. …show more content…
They also revealed that the pew research was inaccurate due to the way they presented information to the public. The pew research used indirect questions and limited the answer choices to agree/disagree/uncertain which made the research questionable, because they could not find the actual perspective of individuals. They presumed that White Americans received faster aid then Black Americans. However, De la Pena et al (2010) conducted in his studies that through his research he found out that race was a factor and so was socio economic status. More percent of Black Americans assumed that race was the main factor for the slow response of the government, while White Americans believed that socio economic status was the main factor. There were both direct and indirect questions to find out people’s opinion and perspective on the factors that played a big role in the governments response. From this research it was concluded that many Africans Americans and white still look at this world in a different perspective. They won’t notice the many similarities among them yet they will see every