We made a two surveys in class to get more insight on what some people think about our topic. I would like to write about the results on the domestic survey.
The results showed that we received 18 answers on the survey.Firstly, we asked the question "Do you believe in the death penalty?"
40% of the people responded to NOT supporting the death penalty, while the remaining 60% said YES.
The next question was "What is your nationality? Age? Gender? Where do you currently reside?"
More than half of the participants answered saying they were Japanese, with one British and three Japanese/American which shows that most of the people who took the survey were probably most of our friends. I was not surprised to see that most of the people who took our surveys were around the ages from 19-32.As for gender, out of 18 people only four were male and the rest all female.Two people responded that they were from the US while the rest were from Japan.
The third question was "Does execution occur in the country you are currently residing in?"
Because most of the people who answered our survey were from Japan, it was not a surprise to see that 90% of the people answered YES to this question.
Next question was "How would you rate the seriousness of the crimes?"
The crime with the most votes to being the worst was "Murder by violence." "Rape" and "Poisoning" were second in place. "Arson" and "Bombing" were third and lastly "Theft" and "Espionage"
The fifth question was "What do you think is the most cruel form of execution?"
Two people skipped this question only leaving 16 people to answer that the most cruel form of execution was "Stoning." secondly "Gas chamber" third was "Hanging" then "Electrocution"
The next question was quite difficult. "Do you know how many people are executed in your country every year?" 60% percent answered saying that they did not know.
the seventh question was "Should criminals be informed about the data of their execution?"
3 people skipped this question so the remaining 9 answered to YES and 6 people answered to NO.
I wanted to know why some people answered to NO, which made me wish i made a "Comment" box at the end of this question.
"Would you use something that was made for a prisoner?" Was the eighth question.
It was very interesting to see that the results were half and half. 50% answered YES while 50% answered NO.
This was my first time to make a survey on a very serious topic, so at first it was hard to make the survey not seem tacky and unprofessional. In the end it was interesting to see the results and to get a general idea of what other people think on this topic. It made me want to experiment with another survey on different topics.
If you have not taken our survey yet, please feel free to!
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/?sm=F8Ew7Gr%2fSi7qMyO3aRTR7rqoPm02XB8Y%2f3bAvk2hM5D1bIsveIdIoLforfIiR9DixmJMiWWun8kp5whrPXGdKoTApjO0KOvgx3UE4fatccM%3d
I thought your group did a great presentation! Even though this is a very heavy and serious issue, it was easy to understand. I was surprised that there are many forms of execution. I wonder which country has which type of it. Even after listening to your presentation, I feel that execution should be legal in Japan. Many people might think that murderers should live and feel bad for what they have done all the rest of their lives, but there must be many people who are for execution. I wonder if there will come a day when victims can choose whether to execute the suspect or not.
返信削除I'm glad that you found doing the survey so rewarding and you were inspired to maybe do another one on a different topic. I was also happy to see that you reflected on ways that the survey could have been improved. It would have been interesting to know why such a large percentage of the respondents thought criminals should NOT be informed about the date of their execution.
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