Body Modification Research Paper
In the quantitative portion of my research, I would have to choose my wording of questions carefully. This is because it is good to eliminate bias in the questions. The two most important variables in my research question are body modification and bullying. Body modification can be identified as a tattoo, piercing, or any surgical alteration. Bullying can be conceptualized as a moment or moments in time when someone physically, socially or mentally brings down the self worth of another person weaker than the attacker. It is important to word the questions on the survey in a way that does not show bias. After the data is collected from the survey, I will use a statistical test to see the relationship between the two variables I am testing. I would use both a cross tab and a chi square test to see the statistical significance in the variables.
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I would start off with a bivariate analysis and then test it as a multivariate analysis. In this research, I expect to see that media directly effects bullying and bullying directly effects body modifications. The media sets societal beauty norms that people internalize and appearance bully a person based on the societal beauty norm. That bullying can lead to a body modification because that person will want to fit into society. The control variable would be the media. This is what I expect to see in a multivariate analysis. After getting the statistical significance, from the chi square test it will be important to identify the p-value. The p-value will tell us if we can reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis. If the p-value is less than or equal to 0.05, this means that we are 95% confident that our data supports the research and that there is a correlation between the variables. We can reject the null hypothesis. The larger the chi square value the lower the p-value. This is what is desired as a
I would start off with a bivariate analysis and then test it as a multivariate analysis. In this research, I expect to see that media directly effects bullying and bullying directly effects body modifications. The media sets societal beauty norms that people internalize and appearance bully a person based on the societal beauty norm. That bullying can lead to a body modification because that person will want to fit into society. The control variable would be the media. This is what I expect to see in a multivariate analysis. After getting the statistical significance, from the chi square test it will be important to identify the p-value. The p-value will tell us if we can reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis. If the p-value is less than or equal to 0.05, this means that we are 95% confident that our data supports the research and that there is a correlation between the variables. We can reject the null hypothesis. The larger the chi square value the lower the p-value. This is what is desired as a