Do It Yourself Primatology Essay

For my Do-It-Yourself Primatology project I chose to research how Indiana University male and female students behave differently in public when they are eating with a group of friends, versus eating on their own among strangers. I found this question to be thought provoking because of the fact that Indiana University is a very diverse school with people from many different cultures and backgrounds. For this experiment I broke the variables down into four different categories; my first category was five male students who were eating alone, second, five male students who were eating in groups, third, five female students who were eating alone, and finally five female students who were eating in groups. While conducting this experiment I used …show more content…
This makes me wonder how accurate my testing was considering females are always considered to be the more social sex, or if this is just another stereotype that has yet to be debunked, this data can be seen on either the pie charts labeled: Male alone, Male group, Female alone, or Female group; it can also be found on the data table. Another interesting pattern I discovered was that no matter the gender or number of people eating together, almost all the subjects were on their phone at one point or another during. In the “Overall” chart, I found that the same number of people were on their phone as the number of people who talked while they were eating. This makes me wonder how important socializing is to the human race, do people find talking and staying in touch with others more important than their need for food? Also, the amount of individuals on their phones while they were alone was twice the amount of those of individuals who were sitting in a group. My data also charts showed that, while people are eating in Wright Food Court, people did not spend most of their time drinking or eating