Data_Team_activity_FINAL


Do American consumers who desire to practice a green lifestyle choose environmentally friendly cleaning products? A supporting question would be do factors such as cost or greenwashing contribute to decisions to purchase environmentally friendly cleaning products

Due: BCC (March 24th)

· What do I expect to find i.e. will my hypothesis bear out? Even though people SAY that they try to live green, we believe we will find that they don't actually purchase green cleaning products. We think we'll find that cost, lack of marketing, and greenwashing play a role in this.  · What don't I expect to find, and how can I look for it? Our questions mapped to our objectives pretty tightly, so we expect to find all the info needed for our research question. We don't expect to find in-depth information about consumer reactions. Also, we may not find how much the downturn in the economy is affecting people's purchasing behaviors.  · Can my findings be interpreted in alternate ways? What are the implications? We have not analyzed our data completely yet. However, it looks like people are concerned about environment but are not making those kinds of purchases.   **Questions related to research questions, aims and objectives:** · <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">How should I treat my data in order to best address my research questions? <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We need to organize findings by reasons why green purchases are not happening. We also need to assign weights to some of the attitudinal information.<span style="color: rgb(63, 23, 196);"> ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How do my findings relate to my research questions, aims and objectives? <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I think they relate, we are seeing reasons why they don't buy green cleaning products. However, we will need to completely analyze the data before making a final conclusion. <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);"> ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Are my findings confirming my theories? How? Why? Why not? <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We need to analyze the data more to know this. We will have to look at the outcome of the analysis and interpretations to know if our findings are confirming our theories. <span style="color: rgb(67, 77, 239);"> ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Does my theory inform/help to explain my findings? In what ways? <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Again, we need to analyze the findings more before we can answer this. ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 128, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Can my unexpected findings link with alternative theories? <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">So far, we do not think that we have unexpected findings and we believe that our findings will match our hypothesis. <span style="color: rgb(51, 28, 227);"> ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Have my methods of data collection and/or analysis colored my results? If so, in what ways? <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">One could rationalize that fact that all the respondents have access to email, but we think we covered that bias in defining our population as people living green. With email so prominent these days, we don't feel the data collection method posed a problem. ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">How might my methodological shortcomings be affected by my findings? <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">A majority of the respondents work in the university setting, however, only half of the invitees responded, so that shows there are people in academia that are not living the green lifestyle.
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