Results

Our team was able to amass a study group of 54 subjects on the campus of WSUV. The experiments took place between March 15 and April 2.

Step one of the experiment was to ask each subject the question “will you be my friend?” 33 of the 54, or 61.1% of total respondents answered in the affirmative. This caused the testers to move on to step two. 21 of the 54, or 38.9% of total respondents answered either in the negative, or with two consecutive questions of the tester, which caused the tester to end the experiment.

Step two of the experiment was to ask each subject the question “can I take your picture?” 18 of the remaining 33 (54. 5%), or 33.3% of total respondents answered in the affirmative. This caused the testers to move on to step three. 15 of the 33 (45. 6%), or 66.7% of total respondents answered either in the negative, or with two consecutive questions of the tester, which caused the tester to end the experiment.

Step three of the experiment was to ask each subject the question “can I give you some flair?” 15 of the remaining 18 (83. 3%), or 27.8% of total respondents answered in the affirmative. This caused the testers to move on to step four. 3 of the 18 (16. 7%), or 72.2% of total respondents answered either in the negative, or with two consecutive questions of the tester, which caused the tester to end the experiment.

Step four of the experiment was to ask each subject to attend a staged event. 11 of the remaining 15 (73. 3%), or 20.4% of total respondents answered in the affirmative. This caused the testers to move on to step five. 4 of the 15 (26. 7%), or 79.6% of total respondents answered either in the negative, or with two consecutive questions of the tester, which caused the tester to end the experiment.

Step five of the experiment is to take place on April 9th during the Research Showcase in the Firstenberg Student Commons. The remaining 11 respondents have been invited to attend the event, where we will be presenting the experiment and our findings to the academic community.

Written by Ben Hook