In my research lesson, I carried out a tally survey to find out information on the audience of the TV show ‘Misfits’ which is aired (each series airing annually) on average seven episodes per series. The research I carried out is primary research, meaning that all of the information I’ve found out is original things I’ve found myself. Included in this I’ve used secondary research using the internet to find out when the TV show was aired. The data that I’ve found out is known as quantitative date as it is shown as a set of numbers, which is displayed in this certain case in a tally chart, but could be transformed into a graph or even a bar chart.
The research is not qualitative as we didn’t delve deeper into what people actually thought about the show in particular. The questions we asked were just simple yes and no questions, finding out further their age, gender and basic likes of the show been given.
In result I found out that out of fourteen of the people asked, 79% of the people asked liked the channel E4s show ‘Misfits’, leaving 21% that aren’t keen on it.
Included in this percentage, 64% of the asked audience were males, and the rest of the 36% are females. The majority of the people we asked were adolescents ages varying from 16-19, with 14% over 20.
With this information given, I would say that this particular type of research isn’t exactly reliable as I’ve only asked one age group on their opinions of the show. My results would have been much more accurate if I had asked people with different age ranges, equal sexual orientations.
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