Week 6: Set Three of Surveys And Beginning My Analysis

Hey Everyone! I trust that this week went well for you all! For me this week went pretty well, but a majority of it was routine.  This week I was able to workout with some of the clients and also had some interesting discussions. However, a majority of this week was trying to acquire more results.

This week with regards to my research, my site mentor had given some good news. He had asked me to show the list of people who had taken the survey. I had pulled up the excel spreadsheet of the responses. After looking at the spreadsheet, he said he could deduce which clients still needed to take the survey.  He then could have them actually take the survey. 

 Although I had received this news from my site mentor, the rate that responses were coming in was slower than expected. This week I was only able to get 3-4 people to complete the survey. But  I was able to get some people who come in the morning to complete the survey, which was a little reassuring. With some new ideas that I gained from my faculty advisor, I wish to incentive more people who come in the mornings and evenings to take my survey next week.

I was also able to start analyzing the responses for some trends this week. The first two set of results I compared were the pre and post workout ratings. After taking a look at the data, I saw that a majority of the clients’ responses showed an increase in rating from before to after the workout.  Many of the clients’ had gone from 4-6 out of 10 to 8-9 out of 10. I could see a significant change in the short term. I was also able to plot an initial graph to see the change over time.  The graph supported that trend and showed an increase in rating of mood post workout.  

For next week, I will continue to go at an earlier time to my site to get people in the morning and also potentially stay later some days to get people in the evening.  With some ideas given by my faculty advisor, I will try to convince more people to participate in my research. In the coming weeks, with the help of my site mentor, I also hope to start gathering the specific demographic for my control group. By doing so, I will be able to start comparing the control group’s results to my sample group’s results to test my hypothesis.

I bet a lot of you have the same reaction as Usain Bolt. So that’s all for this week! I hope I did not bore you with, what I think is somewhat repetitive, details. Just so I don’t leave you bored or tired of the same stuff, I’ll share a cool nutrition fact I learned. This week, my site mentor had told me how carbs are more easily stored than proteins. This is because proteins, to be stored, need to converted into many different molecules. This is very energy expensive process. Carbohydrates, meanwhile, do not require as much energy as they do not need to be converted to as many different molecules to be stored.  Thus, the body more easily stores carbs. Well thanks for reading and tune in next week to see how I progress!