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Hudson H. 2023 | BASIS Independent Brooklyn
- Project Title: AP Research: Finding the Correlational Coefficient Between Support for Political Violence and Disbelief in the Electoral Process
- BASIS Independent Advisor: Mr. Hirsch
AP Research
This project will look for the correlation in support for political violence and disbelief in elections in Columbia and Georgetown students. Students are the subjects because they are the future. These are going to be future voters and leaders and political activists so by looking at them now will provide a rough estimate of what later general population studies will see can be determined. By using two schools, one in Washington D.C. and one in New York City the effects on witnessing political violence, the Capital Riot, on the student’s opinions can also be determined. When it comes to both support for political violence and belief in voter fraud, most of the current academic research is rooted in partisanship.
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Week 7: My Results
May 15, 2023
I got more data back than I expected from a more diverse group than I expected. In total, 87 data points were gathered, from a good mix of demographics. There were 49 NYU students and 38 Georgetown students from a mix of political parties, including 11 third party voters and 22 independents. In addition, a […]
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Week 5: Increasing Support For Political Violence
May 5, 2023
This week I will be talking about political violence. As partisanship increases, so does support for political violence. Partisanship and issue alignment, which in the US is almost perfectly aligned, were correlated with political hostility. This is backed up by research that found that stronger partisan identities drive stronger intentions to engage in political violence, […]
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Week 6: Methodology
May 5, 2023
I am using a survey to answer my research question. The two relevant strengths of an online questionnaire to gather data are large distribution and honesty. Honesty in particular is a benefit for me as people often want to give a socially acceptable answer, which would massively skew my data. By providing them anonymity through […]
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Week 4: A Declining Faith In Elections
May 3, 2023
Conspiracy theories are becoming ever more prominent in American politics. A study that appeared in Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind poll, a think tank member of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) Transparency Initiative, found that a majority of voters believed in at least one election conspiracy, often including one side or the other […]
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