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The road to results and the process to products

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.

Our Bias Google Survey

Post Call for Participants

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.

This is a pie chart showing the responses to the question, "Do you think that WWU is a more liberal or more conservative campus?" and the largest response ws for Democratic with 83.3% of the vote.

Pie chart of question responses-click to enlarge

 

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.

This is a pie chart showing the responses of out subjects to the question, "Would you say that you're biased towards opposing political parties?" with 2/3 of the answers being "yes."

Pie chart of responses-click to enlarge