To gather data on WWU campus about media bias, propaganda, and what types of news coverage coincides to all this, project partners Sam Rogers and Erin Glynn made a post to an English 101 Wix site calling for participants to respond to a google forums survey. We then gathered those responses through a google document, which formulates different types of charts based on the data it collects and from there.
Some of the questions asked of subjects were included to measure the general consensus among students and the variables related to the original question. For example, it was measured what students believe is the most prevalent political party presence on campus and the majority of responses confirmed students believe there are mostly Democratic students on campus.
Moreover, it was also measured how subjects felt about their own bias. The question, “Would you say that you’re biased towards opposing political parties?” was asked of the subjects. The response was nearly 2/3 of students feeling they are biased toward other parties as seen on the pie chart below.