Meldon Brown

Ms.Mckoy

English 2-1^st Block

9 March 2012

Hypothesis:

People really do not know about Thalassemia what I want to know is that, “if more people learn about thalassemia will there be more of awareness for the disease, and what would be the best ways to get awareness out there? From, my research now I cannot tell that it is not much info about thalassemia, I get most of my information from my sister. I also want to know “What are the effects of thalassemia on life, can it lead to emotional issue’s From Being inside the hospital many times. My survey questions targeted my first question. I think they will respond well in a positive way, which would cause them to take action.

Context:

My target audience are young people from 19-35.I decided on this group because I feel that they need to be educated about it, if they spread the word to younger and older people. My data is reliable it has one major pattern nobody known is what thalassemia is. My survey questions are not biased; I just think people do not get the questions. I did have to change questions, so my survey could be useful.

Result: Figure 1

1.      Do you know what thalassemia is?

                            Yes or No

2.      How do you think the government could spread the awareness about thalassemia?

3.      What do you think are some effects of thalassemia? (check which effects you think)

                                

Ability to not make Blood _

Ability to not make iron_

Weight Loss_

Do you think it could lead to cancer_?

4.      Have you ever known somebody with thalassemia? (Family, Friends, or associates)

5.      From a scale of 1 to 10(with 10 being the highest and 1 being the lowest) order this disease in which one is more deadly?

Cancer_

Aids_

Leukemia_

Turrets syndrome_

Bipolar_

Thalassemia_

6.      Now that you know a little about thalassemia do you care about it?

7.      Thalassemia is a disease that does not allow you to make blood or make iron how do you feel about that?

8.      There is suppose to be an increase in the cases of thalassemia, what do u thinks the government will do to find a cure?

9.      If the government does not do anything for thalassemia will you are willing to take action towards it? Why or why not.

10.  On a scale from 1 to 10 how dangerous do you think thalassemia is now?

Data analysis:

  A pattern that I noticed from figure 1 is that not many people know about thalassemia. They have no clue at all, but the survey really gave them some knowledge it caused them to want them to know more about the disease and really wonder why the government does not spread awareness. My results also showed me that my survey does not target any specific age group because all of them were clueless on the subject. When I asked the question on if they care about thalassemia, on a scale from one to ten with ten being the worst, they were concerned but there were not many 10’s.

Conclusion:

  In my opinion I think that my hypothesis was proven correct I did raise some awareness about thalassemia, from just the surveys, and I think they want to know more about the disease I’m just going to keep giving awareness and spreading news about it. For my second question it was not really answered they really did not know all that about the topic so that question was not answered.