Is Anonymous Important to the
world?
Hypothesis: Anonymous is a
questionable group of individuals. They state what they personally feel is
right, and what they feel should change. Recently (January- February 2013)
Anonymous has been stealing bank accounts and has over 4000 bank I.D.s off
employers. The questions asked in my survey are straight forward. These “easy”
questions will tremendously help my decision on what I think Anonymous is
about. “Do you care for middle eastern countries?” And “How often do you go on
the internet?” These examples of some of the questions asked within my survey.
Context:
My
target audience is teenagers (14-19) specifically. Teenagers are the people of
the future. I am interested to see how Anonymous will be in the future.
Surveying teenagers will help me understand if the younger people are aware of
Anonymous. Through my pilot testing my findings surprised me. At least 30% have
heard about Anonymous either by Internet, TV, or through a person. Consider
that I received a better response than I expected, I can say that my results
are both reliable and valid. I would say that all of my questions are to the
point. None of them seemed skewed or biased in anyway. Nobody seemed to have
any trouble with how my questions were worded.
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Demographic
(age, race, gender, location)
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Trends (What
element is in common with this demographic group?)
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Implications
(How does this trend hurt or help my hypothesis? What does this mean?)
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Age
group
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Question
#4: Have you ever heard of the “Hacktivist” group Anonymous?
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This will help
me figure out whether or not people know about Anonymous already or not.
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10-20
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Yes-8
No-12
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This is more
than I personally expected to say yes. More teens are aware of the group
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21-30
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Yes-1
No-0
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The one person
that was over 21 has actually heard about the group. This in a way gives me
the recognition about people within this age group.
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31-40
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Yes-0
No-1
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This was what
I expected from people in their 30’s. The group itself could have had more
surveyed for a more broad opinion.
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41 or greater
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Yes-0
No-3
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This is what I
expected from the older group of people that I interviewed.
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Age
Group
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Question
#5 Does the US fell secure to you?
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This is for me
to take and figure out what people think. I want to get a lot of recognition
for this question.
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10-20
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None of the
time-2
Some of the
time-17
Always feels
secure-1
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Based on this
data not as many teens fell that the United States is secure all of the time
or even none of the time.
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21-30
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None of the
time-0
Some of the
time-1
Always feels
secure-0
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People tend to
think that the country is not always secure.
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31-40
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None of the
time-0
Some of the
time-1
Always feels
secure-0
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The older the
age seems to rise, the people seem to lean more towards the choice of “Some
of the time”.
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41 and older
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None of the
time-0
Some of the
time-3
Always feels
secure-0
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The choice
seems more certain in the people above the age of 40. Adults above 40 most of
the time seem more mature and focused on their beliefs.
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Age
Group
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Question
#7 Would you willing to see to view a documentary about Anonymous?
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This is
important to my research to see if surveyors will show a possible interest in
my topic.
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10-20
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Yes-14
No- 4
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This is great
for what I was hoping for. This means that most teenagers would be willing to
set down and watch the actual documentary on the group.
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21-30
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Yes-1
No-0
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This does not
give me a complete understanding. However, from what I do have I feel that
people in their 20’s are open minded about this kind of stuff.
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31-40
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Yes-1
No-0
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This is the
same for 30 year olds as it is for 20 year olds. They can be more open minded
about things of this nature.
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41 and older
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Yes-2
No-1
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For the people
who are in their 40’s or older, I feel I can say that some people would not
want to see anything like this. This can all depend on the person alone.
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Age
Group
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Question
#10 How long do you use the internet each day?
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This question
was for me understanding the importance of internet in today’s society.
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10-20
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None at all-0
Less than an
hour-3
1 to 3 hours-6
3 hours or
greater-10
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This shows a
great importance of internet in teenagers in this day and age.
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21-30
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None at all-0
Less than an
hour-0
1 to 3 hours- 1
3 hours or
greater-0
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This shows
that the people as they get older tend to “stray away” from internet.
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31-40
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None at all-0
Less than an
hour-0
1 to 3 hours- 0
3 hours or
greater-1
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This was taken
from a teacher that works and Horry Georgetown Tech. This means that he must
be on the internet 3 hours or greater a day to keep up with work.
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41 and older
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None at all-0
Less than an
hour-0
1 to 3 hours- 3
3 hours or
greater-0
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People who get
older were born in different time periods and have different perspectives on
things like technology. This is why there is little internet usage.
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Data
Analysis:
Throughout my survey, it seemed very different in answer choice for the more
complex questions. I did notice multiple trends among the age groups that were
given survey. Most of the people taking my survey wanted to ask questions that
did not need to be asked in the first place. For example Question number three
was asking: Do you know the “Hacktivist” group Anonymous? This was making
people ask me questions about the group. However, the question was asking
whether the person knew them or didn’t. Question
1 and 2 consisted of simple questions such as: What is your age and Gender?
These were questions that people were able to answer without thinking.
Question
4 was stating that if they knew who Anonymous was where they heard about them
from. The choices given to choose from were choices like: TV, Computer, A
person, or any other thing that they could have received the information from.
The people that actually circled them in gave me a better understanding of were
Anonymous turned out to be heard of the most. The Internet were the group was
created was the number one most circled answer.
Question
6 was interesting because it was asking whether or not the surveyor was willing
to help Middle Eastern countries. I received mixed opinions about this choice
from all different age groups. Some people were willing to help in some form
towards Middle Eastern. Then there was the people who completely disagreed with
the concept of helping “them.” This lowered my expectations on the outcome of
this question alone. Towards the end it was very opinionated and was straight
to the point.
Question
7 was one that I was looking forward to seeing people answer. The question
asked whether or not the surveyor would be willing to view a documentary of the
group Anonymous. For the most part people said that they would like to see a
documentary on the group they took a survey about. I feel that this was mainly
because of the fact that not a lot of people knew what Anonymous exactly was.
This goes back to the question of whether or not the surveyor knew about
Anonymous. This was one of the questions that were somehow linked to a previous
question in the survey.
Question
8 was linked back to question 6 within the survey. It asked: What is your
opinion on Third World Countries? This question received a variety of answers.
Some of which still surprise me looking at them. Some people wrote that they
should not be given any support at all. One person said that they should be
given support by because it could the United States to build more allies. It
seemed almost as if some of the answers just were not given much thought.
The
last questions were Questions 9 and 10. Question 9 asked if the internet was
important. While question tem stated, how often does the specific surveyor go
on the internet every day. I suspected that there was going to be more time usage
over all for every person who took the survey. Everyone did say that they
thought that the internet was important. This is what I thought was going to
happen for this particular question.
Conclusion:
I
feel that through the survey process this has immensely helped my point of view
as to what I think that this topic will present to me. I will defiantly have a
more clear perspective on what I think today society is like about Anonymous.
Follow-up:
From
this point in my research, I would like to go further in depth with what
Anonymous is actually doing with Middle Eastern countries to help out. My 6th
question is the question I would like to talk about in possible research ahead.
I feel that if I were to change anything about research it would be to reword
or better explain some questions. The question about the Anonymous documentary
could have included a description before the question itself. Some people were
not entirely sure about the documentary. If people knew more about it they
could possibly change their mind on the subject.
