Morality vs. Reality - General

This is a video my friends and I made for our statistics project. It's meant to show how likely people are to help someone in a situation that requires minimal effort. We had to create a name for our team for the groups we were in, so we chose "Team Group" out of apathy. We procrastinated our asses off and ended up filming and editing the videos in the last two days before the due date, so any discrepancies you might find are most likely a result of that. I thought you guys might a kick out of it, and I just wanted to share it with someone besides our friends. [video=youtube;kI25kaYpqqI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI25kaYpqqI[/video]

Morality in a fight versus reality. I wonder who will win? What I mean is that you might be using the term versus wrong... It's nice to see how many people help though.

reminds me of the falling video

[QUOTE=FPtje;33690918]Morality in a fight versus reality. I wonder who will win? What I mean is that you might be using the term versus wrong... It's nice to see how many people help though.[/QUOTE] Well when we did our hypothesis tests, we compared our results from our surveys versus the results from the real life observations. What I mean is that some words can have many meanings... Also the graphs near the end make it clear that not nearly as many people helped out as the survey results had suggested.

Your results aren't valid because the person dropping things wasn't the same one every time. Therefore you added an new independent variable, which can have can greatly influence your results.

interesting project, but to make a real statistic you have to test this on hundreds (or thousands) of people.

[QUOTE=KlaseR;33693500]interesting project, but to make a real statistic you have to test this on hundreds (or thousands) of people.[/QUOTE] That would be overkill.

[QUOTE=BlackBirdNL;33693388]Your results aren't valid because the person dropping things wasn't the same one every time. Therefore you added an new independent variable, which can have can greatly influence your results.[/QUOTE] By that logic we have tons of independent variables including the time of day, what each person was doing at the time, whether their hands were full, the age of the person, and where the person was. The general idea is to have our 'actor' put the subject in a spot where it would be easy to help out, and part of what we were testing was to see if they would help out the person regardless of what they looked like. Using only actor has a much higher chance to produce results that are skewed rather than using multiple of them. [QUOTE=KlaseR;33693500]interesting project, but to make a real statistic you have to test this on hundreds (or thousands) of people.[/QUOTE] We were only aiming for a sample population, not the population as a whole. We took 60 surveys of which 54 people said they would help pretty much unconditionally and filmed 113 people of which only 22 acted generously.

Depending on people helping or not also has a lot to do with the bystander effect. Edit: Psychology is one hell of a useful class.

but what do people make of the cameraman?

I like it when people help :3

[QUOTE=Pappa Smurf;33695862]Depending on people helping or not also has a lot to do with the bystander effect.[/QUOTE] Yep, the number of people witnessing whatever happened to the actor definitely has to do with whether or not they would come to help. Most of the time we went after people who weren't with or around too many people, such as in an open area in a mall or something. [editline]13th December 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Penguin-Man;33695897]but what do people make of the cameraman?[/QUOTE] They usually didn't notice me, and when they did it was after the test was completed. I was using a Sony Cybershot point-and-shoot camera, so if anyone made any comments it was usually something like "Hey, that guy is taking pictures of you!" I guess it didn't really look like I was filming.

Reminds me of the dude in a wheelchair dropping his briefcase of porn and dildos.