Thursday, February 5, 2015

Lab #3: TRUST

  For this lab, I took a week survey 100 random people around where I live, at places like the mall, restaurants, around school, downtown, and around my neighborhood. The people were not predetermined, and I knew very few of them. I presented them with an anonymous survey and asked them a series of questions about their feelings and actions regarding trust. This is what I found.

1) Generally speaking, on a scale of 1-10, 10 being the most trustworthy, how trustworthy do you consider people to be?   

0 - 3 people
1 - 7 people
2 - 35 people
3 - 0 people
4 - 0 people
5- 11 people
6 - 23 people
7 - 6 people
8 - 2 people
9 - 10 people
10 - 3 people

2) How often are you asked or required to trust others?

Never - 21 people
Rarely - 44 people
Sometimes - 23 people
Frequently - 7 people
Constantly/Daily - 5 people

3) What level of closeness is required of a person in order to gain your trust?

Stranger - 14 people
Vague Acquaintance - 27 people
Close Acquaintance - 5 people
Friend - 36 people
Best Friend/Family -  28 people

4) Is there any instance under which you would trust someone with your life?

Yes -21 people
No - 22 people
Depends - 57 people

5) Would you risk your own life for another (honestly)?

Yes - 15 people
No - 67 people
Depends - 18 people

6) On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the most trustworthy, how trustworthy are you?

1 - 0 people
2 - 14 people
3 - 9 people
4 - 8 people
5 - 3 people
6 - 20 people
7 - 2 people
8 - 0 people
9 - 37 people
10 - 7 people

7) Are you ever uncomfortable trusting someone, but doing regardless?

Yes -34 people
No - 66 people


  There were many similarities to the answers, and there were some things that surprised me with the data, though most of it did not. Not many people displayed levels of trust towards others (based only on survey data), and as I asked the questions many people seemed to become flustered either by some of the questions, or by telling their feelings to a total stranger, which not many of them said they were comfortable with anyway. When asking about whether or not people would risk their life to help someone else, many people answered yes immediately, and after asking "Honestly?", more than half of them changed their answer to "no" or "depends," and when asking them what it would depend on, most said it would be based upon how much they knew or cared or the person at risk.
  People had a range of opinions about how trustworthy they are, and how trustworthy the people around them are. And again, after saying that they are very trustworthy, and me asking them "Honestly?", most of them changed their answers to lower numbers after a moment of reconsideration.


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