Thursday, December 3, 2009

HW # 27 Informal Research Interviews and Surveys

Street Interviews: Will and Me interviewing on the streets outside the school.

The types of questions that Will and I asked were:

-What is your defienition of cool?
-In what ways are you cool?
-How do you think others see you as cool?
-Do you think that most people are blending or conforming with society?
-Who do you think is cooler, President Obama or Pope Benedict XVI?

The people that we attenpted to were many businesssmen, tourists and homeless men.
We weren't very successful with about 6 people denying our interview in the beginning. As well to add to the unsuccess in the end we only had 2 people whom had given us feedback when we interviewed them. One of the people that we were successful with was a businessmen having a smoke outside his office buliding. What he said when we asked him our questions was pretty bland and dry:"Things that are interesting, that I like. Well yea people do conform and try to blend in with society." See what I mean? We didn't have time to ask him all of the questions because he said he had  limited time and had to get back to work. So we walked away and looked around for more people to interview and we found these two very interesting homeless men who had quite a bit to say:"Somebody who understands people only knowing them briefly. Somebody who has internal style and gets along with everybody has their own style. someone whose unafraid of people casual and can hang with the cool crowd. I think the Pope because he got his position by competing against 12 denominations with 10,000 others in each denomination and the President only had to compete with a few other elected candidates. Also I think I'm cool because I'm a valley boy from california whose into alternative and euro tech types of music."  I feel this was our only successful interview that we had at all that day, those homeless guys were pretty interesting.

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