Monday, January 24, 2011

Three Ethnography Ideas

1) Observing traffic violations at a four way stop
This could have a lot of statistical analysis such as the number of cars, vans, or trucks that do not stop at the stop sign. What type of vehicle has the highest ratio of traffic violations? What percentage of bicyclists do not stop at the stop sign? What percentage of pedestrians yield the right of way to vehicles? This could even go so far as to see if a particular color of vehicle is linked with more violations.

2) Observing students in an open access lab
How many students are clearly just messing around on the internet instead of doing actual work? 

3) Observe people at the library
How many people are actually studying as opposed to the number of people socializing? 

4) Observe people in the 20 items or less aisle
How many people have more than 20 items?

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