A06

these are the notes i made about the results of my sample survey about the Olympic games and how affective the target audience thought the cuts would be.

Q1.  

By these results, I can see that the majority of my sample audience disagree with the Governments decision to cut the Public Services. This is due to the fact that the public services affect how society works on a daily basis.

Q2.

 By this Pie chart result, I can see that around 60% of my sample survey thought the cuts will affect the Public Services response at the Olympic Games. This is because the Armed Forces and Navy will be protecting the Olympic Games from any major threats such as terrorism the police and stewards will be in control of crowd trouble.

 Q3.

This bar chart shows that the majority of my sample audience agree that the British Public Services are good enough to control the crowds at the Olympic Games. This is because the public services work effectively together in many big events such as football matches, Wimbledon, the Jubilee. 

Q4.

AO3- Animal Testing

Animal testing

Arguments for and against animal testing

Drugs

For

“British law says that any new drug used for medicine must be tested on at least two different types of live mammal. One of these must be a large non-rodent type animal”.

In the UK, laws protect all lab animals from cruelty during testing and all labs are inspected regularly to make sure that the tests are being carried out properly.

Animal testing has helped to develop vaccines against diseases like measles, rabies and mumps it has also helped to develop drugs to fight the effects of HIV and cancer rely on animal tests to find new treatments. Operations on animals have helped to develop organ transplant and open-heart surgery techniques.

Against

An animal's response to a drug can be different to a human's and the stress the animals experience in the lab such as staying in a cage, can affect the test results.  Therefore the tests can seem pointless as the drugs/ products could have different effects to a human than an animal.

Also testing drugs on animals can affect the animal’s health on a long term effect.

It presents a bad role model as if people see animals being tested for experiments; it might promote other people using animals for dangerous test of their own.  

There are many other ways to test product without the use of animals, for example:

• Taking human tissue samples and testing the drugs on them in a test tube.
• Carrying out experiments using computer models and programmes.
• Looking at large numbers of statistics.

Animal researchers say that it will be impossible to stop all animal tests, however most scientists accept that it is extremely important to minimise the suffering of laboratory animals, and to use as few animals as possible. This could result in the same animals being used over and over again, leading to a poor quality of life for these test animals.

Other Products

For

Other products are tested on Animal to ensure that they are safe to be used on for humans or to be used by them.  These products are: 

• Household products
• Agricultural chemicals
• Industrial chemicals
• Pesticides
• Paint
• Food additives

Using these product on animals will be an advantage as we will be able to see what reaction the chemicals make on the animal to see if they are safe for humans to use such as perfume, house products etc.

Against

Using other products such as paint, perfume is wrong to use on animals as because they are new product, the results are unknown and therefore could harm the animals. It’s not fair that animals have to be used as pawns because the scientists are not brave enough to test the products themselves.

There is no purpose for using paint on animals as animal react differently to chemicals as we do, therefore using paint on animal will have no benefit on the human race.

AO5- My Survey explained

The theme of my sample survey is the Olympic Games and what affects the cuts to the Public Services will have on the way its run.
The target audience for my survey sample is Teachers and Members of Staff at Culverhay School.

I have used a range of different types of questions such as open and closed, Rank order and Likert Scale questions. this is because i wanted different types of results from different questions.

I wanted to see what the publics reaction to the Governments cuts were and what importance the Olympics has on our society and how proud we are to be hosting the olympics.


this is the link to my survey via survey monkey

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/73QSBFN

this is the print sceen of my results

AO5- QUESTIONNAIRE IDEAS FOR OLYMPIC GAMES

Do you agree with the Government's decisions to cut the public services budget?

At the Olympic Games, do you think the public services will be over stretched?

Do you think the cuts will affect the effectiveness of the police force at the Olympic Games?

On a rank of 1-6 (1 being most important) which Public service do you rank as most important and least important to the Olympic Games?

• Police
• Fire Service 
• Ambulance
• Army 
• Navy 
• RAF 

In you opinion, will the Effectiveness of the Public Services benefit how the Olympic Games are held and why?

The Police service work efficiently on a daily basis and are capable of working at the Olympic Games?
Agree                               Neutral                                    Disagree
 1           2          3       4       5      6     7     8        9             10

AO4- Interview Location and Recording Methods

Recording Methods
when your listening to a speaker and recording the conversation, there are many different challenges and methods you will come up against.
Challenges

• the speed in which people speak at is quicker than what people wirte at.
• you need to be able to write quickly whilst making sense
• you need to be able to listening to what they are saying whilst writing down what they have already said.
• also if you are listening to them as well as writing, you can muddle up what you want to write down with what is being said.

Methods

• to write in short hand.
• to set a focus from what is being said.
• to listen to key facts
• practise multi tasks

Location
 The location of the interview is important as the surroundings around the interview can set the scene at act as a distraction.
For example, if there is only an interviewer and an interviewee in a room, the interviewee can focus on the interviewer and will be able to hear him clearly without being distracted.
Where as a outdoor interview can lead to distractions such as passers by, cars, the weather (rain, wind, hail etc). 
The location of the interview can also depend on the seriousness of the interview.


A04

Interview Planning

Interviewer: Nathan Baker	Interviewee: George Bean
Date: 15th March 2012	Time:
Location: Culverhay School	Recording Method: video recorder paper
Topic: Holiday in America
Consent Statement (To be completed by Interviewer, and to include confidentiality, anonymity, use of data, protecting the rights of the interviewee) The information received from this interview is only for unit 16 Research skills and will not be passed on to a 3rd party. The information from this interview will not be passed on to anyone else unless given the permission from the interviewee. If the interviewee wishes to remain anonymous then his name will not be used during the interview.
Signed (interviewer)_________	Signed (interviewee)_________

Questions

1.       Did you enjoy your holiday in the USA?

Answer- yes it was the best thing i have ever done

Who did you go with?

Answer- i went with my mum, dad, brother, 2 cousins and girlfreind

Where did you stay? hotel above times square

·         What was the living condition like?

Answer- from the outside it looked dodgey, but from the inside it was the cleanest and best hotel he had been to

it was much different to england as it was packed every day and felt as though everyone was in a rush

2.       Was it more of a relaxing holiday or a sight seeing holiday?

 Answer- it was a sight seeing holiday

3.       What major attractions did you visit?

Answer- stood on top of empire states building, went on a ferry to the statue of liberty, walked over the Brooklyn bridge, went into central park.

·         which one did you have more interest in? 

Answer- the empire state building  

·         why? because he went to the top of the building at night time and he could see all of New York lit up.

4.       What was the highlight of the holiday and why?

Answer-the Broadway show as he could then say to people i have been to see a broadway show

5.       Before you went on holiday what was your opinion on America?

 Answer- it was he dream to go to America.

6.       How friendly would you say the American people were?

 they people were more confident and freindly

7.       Did you meet any American families that you got on well with?

Answer- no

·         Why do you think you got on well with them

8.       Has your opinion changed since your visit?

Answer- yh he always thought america was good but when he got there it was better than he expected

9.       Have you learned anything about America that you didn’t know before?

Answer-he thought the food propertions were massive but when he got there he found they were no bigger than one in the UK.

10.   Did you notice any difference between their culture differences between the ENGLAND and USA, for example food, shops etc.

Answer-yh again the american people were more confident and the shop sizes in america were way bigger than the ones in the UK and had a bigger selection of items.

Ask another question depending on his answer  (why was it different)

11.   Would you visit there again?

Answer- yh

·         Why

Answer- because its one of the best things he has ever done 

·         Is there anywhere else in US that you would like to visit

 Answer- Las Vegas, because of all the attractions and LA because it another major city

12.   Would you like to live in Manhattan?

Answer- yh, every other holiday i have been on i have said i wouldnt like to live there but in mahatten i would

·         Why? has this been influenced by you holiday

Answer- yh it has

13.    And finally, do you think that you could adapt to living in America?

Answer- yh

·         Why?

 Answer- although the changes are different, you dont really notice them.

I have chosen to use a structured method so that I have questions planned so there is no stall in the interview. I want a friendly approach to the interview and therefore I want to stick to certain questions that he will be happy to talk about rather than random unstructured questions which he might get offended by. 

However in need to make it look as though I seem interested, therefore I will need to ask some unstructured questions about his answers so that he realises I’m listening.

Paper and a video.

I will use a video recorder because I can listen back to the interview to see if I was speaking loud and clear so that I can learn from my mistakes in the future. Also I would like to what uses of body language I used. For example how I was sat, did I smile, laugh, did I keep eye contact, was I sat relaxed or tensed up?

I will use paper recording to jot down any key notes so that George knows I’m listening  because I am writing down his answers.

Because it has recently happened and it is fresh in George’s mind.

As a friend I can listen to some of his stories.

AO4 Examples of Behaviour in Interviews

i have been analysing how different types of behaviour, such as body language, eye contact, facial expressions, tone of voice etc. effective how a interview is taken.
this depends on the answers required from the interview, for example, positive behaviour would show friendship whilst negative would show a serious approach.

there are many individual differences that set the scene for an interview.
For example, for a positive and friendly interview, i have looked at an interview between Jonathan Ross(interviewer) and Will Smith (interviewee)
the  location is a key factor in this interview as its in a studio on live TV for entertainment. so there is a freindly approach to the interview as he has been asked to come in to talk to about sentimental subjects in this case his movies.
this would make the interviewee feel more comfortable and relaxed as they are talking about subject they have pride and  interest in.
Johnathan Ross has good positioning skills as he invites his interviewee's to sit on a sofa and feel comfortable.

body language
Jonathan  Ross used laughter, and cracked jokes in order to make the interview comfortable and seem confident and relaxed. He also reinforced his questions by nodding his head, using hand gestures as he spoke and adding little inputs to Will Smiths answers to make it seem as though he was interested.

Tone of voice
Ross used a light tone of voice as this portrays and friendly and happy approach to interview.

Eye contact
JR kept eye contact with WS when they were speaking, however, only for around 6 seconds at a time so that it didn't feel as though he was staring at him which cuould have made him feel nervous or intimidated

Facial Expressions
smiles to make the interview seem freindly and to show that he was listening

AO3- Definitions

Confidential

"Trusted with private information and the confidence of another (of information) given in confidence or in secret; denoting confidence or intimacy; the level of official classification for documents next above restricted and below secret"

An example of confidentiality would be when someone goes to see a GP or a Doctor and get given back bad information such as cancer, or STD's. If that person didn't want to tell anyone about this, than they have the right to keep the information to themselves. The Doctor or GP are not allowed to share the information with family members or friends of their client    

Privacy

 

 “The ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively”.

 “The state of being free from intrusion or disturbance in one's private life or affairs: the right to privacy”.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/privacy

An example of Privacy would be if a celebrity had given the press/ Paparazzi their consent to take pictures at their wedding. the press are then not allowed go to the celebrity's home and take pictures of them with their children etc because they were given their consent before. 

Anonymity

it is important that research is confidential because some research shouldn't be shared with other unless given consent, for example news from a GP. this is because everybody has the right and the privacy to keep information to themselves. Also important information or documents can give away vital information about someone for example bank details. therefore people do not have the right to give information about somebody to anyone else.

“The quality or state of being unknown or unacknowledged”http://www.answers.com/topic/anonymity#ixzz1j9XzBAU1 

An example of Anonymity is when vote is happening between two people ( two school candidates voting to be head boy). if both candidates were friends of their class mates, than the students could vote for one of their friends without stating their name  so that both of the candidates wouldn't know who they had voted foron to vote for them without the other Friends feeling bad because they didn't vote for them.