Data Commentary

Intercultural marriage

Data Commentary

                  The graph shows the two increasing trends of new marriages and all marriages occurred in the United States from 1980 to 2010. In the chart the years are plotted against to the percentage of marriages. The percentage of marriages are actually those marriages in which the spouses are from different races or ethnicities from each other. It can be seen from the chart that the percentage of new marriages has grown by 125% in 2010 as compared to the numbers in 1980. Likewise, the chart also represents that the number of marriages that happened in 2010 is more than 150% of the all marriages during 1980. (Fahad)

Data commentary

          I use the “Intermarriage Trends among Newlyweds by Race and Ethnicity, 1980 to 2008” to do the analysis. In the graph, it shows the changes of four different races, in which people have an intercultural marriage from 1980 to 2008. Comparing the four races, Asian people have highest rate in the intercultural marriages. The Hispanic people is the second and the whites the lowest. However, the rates rise obviously for black and the white. That means, in my opinion, that white people become more and more open minded, and that the discrimination among black people reduces. For the Asian and the Hispanic, the rates have arc shapes, which decrease first and then go up. These mean that, for the immigrants, because less Asian and Hispanic people lived in America during 1980s, they had to marry local people. With the time going, more immigrants come to United States. That is the reason that the rates decrease. And recently, because of more open minded people, more immigrants get married with people from different cultures.

          I can compare my survey with this graph to see that is there any differences between people from different cultures. (Yuan)

Reference

Pew Research Center analysis of 2018 American Community Survey (ACS) and 1980 U.S. Decennial Census data, based on Integrated Public-Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) samples. From: https://www.publicinsightnetwork.org/2012/07/05does-your-significant-other-look-like-you/

Data Commentary #1

                  This graph shows the intermarriage trends among Newlyweds by race and ethnicity. The data are collected from 1980 to 2008. We can clearly see that the intermarriages among all races and ethnicities have been increased a lot in recent decades. The percentage of interracial marriage for Asian and Hispanic people is much higher than it is for Black and White people. Asians have the highest percentage and Hispanics are in the second place.  The percentage for Blacks is only half what it is for Asians while the White people have the least cross-cultural marriage percentage.

                  We can expect to find that there are more newly married intercultural couples in recent years, and that Whites have lower intercultural marriage percentage, as the trend shows, at TTU. (Songjing)

Reference

Ng, M. (2012, July 5). Does your significant other look like you? Public Insight Network. Retrieved on March 8, 2016, from http://www.publicinsightnetwork.org/2012/07/05/does-your-significant-other-look-like-you/

Data commentary on graph of ‘The rise of Intermarriage’

                  The graph shown describes a trend in the inter-cultural marriage scenario. It talks about the years from 1989 to 2010 and the respective growth in percentages during that period. It provides the trends for new marriages and total marriages that happened during that period of time. It can be seen that the many new couples are favoring an intercultural marriage and the number keeps growing each year. The increase almost seems to be in a linear fashion. The number of inter-cultural marriages in the total marriages remains lower than the newlyweds, of course due to the existing marriages in the same culture and lower number of intercultural marriages before 1980s. Thus we can see that both trends are increasing and almost run parallel to each other. To conclude by 2010 a total on 8.4% marriages in all marriages and 15.1% marriages in the new marriages were inter-cultural marriages. (Snigdha)

Reference –

Wang, W. (2012). Chapter 1: Overview. Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project. Retrieved from http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/02/16/chapter-1-overview/

Data Commentary #1

                  The current graph shows intermarriage trends among newly married people by race from the year 1980 to 2008. The graph indicates that the intermarriage is a growing trend. Asians have the most intermarriage tendency. White people have less tendency to intermarriage, but their tendency is increasing with time. Blacks have higher tendency than whites, and their intermarriage rate is even steeper. Hispanics are the second largest in the graph. Both Asians and Hispanics had decreasing intermarriage trend until 1990’s, but after then their intermarriage rates are increasing with time. I believe, Texas Tech students also have the similar intermarriage tendency by race.   (Sheik)

References

Ng, M. (2012, July 5). Does your significant other look like you? Retrieved March 8, 2016, from Public insight network: https://www.publicinsightnetwork.org/2012/07/05/does-your-significant-other-look-like-you/

Data Commentary #1

                  Pew Research Center has published a line graph about intermarriage trends among newlyweds by race and ethnicity in the United States over a period of 28 years. Based on this graph, in 1980, Asians were almost ten times more open minded than Whites in this regard. Over the first ten years, the trend dropped dramatically for Asian and Hispanic groups. Between 1995 and 2000, the number of intermarriages for Asians and Hispanics remained constant. However, Blacks and Whites experienced a moderate growth during this 20 years, while Asians and Hispanics experienced the same just in the last 15 years (Pew Research Center, 2012).

                  All in all, it is concluded that the number of intermarriages have increased among all four groups and we can expect that this trend continues more rapidly in the near future.  (Mahshad)

Reference:

Pew Research Center. (July 5, 2012). Does your significant other look like you?. Pew Research Center American Trends Panel Survey. Retrieved in Mar 8, 2016 from

Cell phones

Data Commentary #1

This figure is excerpted from ‘Americans’ view on mobile etiquette’. These data are collected by the Pew Research Center, from May 30 to June 30, 2014, and the number of participants was 3217. This figure gives us varying views of people about when it is ok or not ok to use their cellphones, and the data is shown in percentage form. In the figure, we can see, people are more ok with using their phones while walking down the street, waiting in line, or on public transportation. However, they are less ok to use their cellphones when they are at a family dinner, during a meeting, or at some public places (e.g. restaurants, churches, movie theaters, etc.). From these, we can assume that, people are more comfortable to use cellphones when they are alone or at some rumbustious places, but when they are with someone else or at some quiet places, they prefer not using phones. (Siyu)

Reference

Rainie, L., and Zickuhr, K., (August 26, 2015). Americans’ Views on Mobile Etiquette: Always on’ mobile connectivity poses new challenges for users about when to be present with those nearby or engaged with others on their screens.

Data Commentary #1

                  A survey of Americans’ views on mobile etiquette had been done by Pew Research Center in 2014. 3217 adults engaged in the survey. According to this investigation, 77% believed that it’s ok to use a cellphone while walking down the street; 75% supported the usage of a cell phone on public transportation, and 74% thought its’ ok to use a cellphone while waiting in line. However, only 38% supported the cellphone’s usage at a restaurant; just 12% believed that it’s ok to use a cellphone at a family dinner. What’s more, only 5% thought that it’s ok to use a cellphone during a meeting or at the movie theater or other places where others are usually quite. At the same time, people showed the least tolerance towards the cellphone’s usage at church or worship service, just 4% thought agreed with that behavior.

                  From this group of numbers, we can see that most adults have great views on mobile usages. Especially to some specific activities, such as meeting, dinner with family or worship, most of them preferred to not to use a cellphone. Because cellphone’s usage can disturb others or ruin the atmosphere of activity. I think that most of the students from TTU hold the same attitudes towards cellphone usage as people did in the survey.  (Yu)

Reference

Lee, R., Kathryn, Z. (2015, August 26). Americans’ Views on Mobile Etiquette. Retrieved from http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/08/26/americans-views-on-mobile-etiquette/

Data Commentary #1

This graph shows that American’s opinion about when is a good time for using a cell phone. According to this graph, results can be divided two parts. Most people agree to use a cell phone while walking, waiting and taking on the public transportation. However, many people seems don’t like when people involve the social group, for example, having dinner with family, meeting and when they are in a public place. I think these results cannot find out what people actually do. These results just can show that ideal behavior people's think about. Everybody knows cell phone using while driving is not good, but sometimes they do. Therefore, we can expect to find what they are actually doing in their daily life.  (Jimin)

Rainie, L. and Zickuhr, K. (2015, August 26), Americans’ Views on Mobile Etiquette, Pew Research Center. Retrieved on March 8, 2016, http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/08/26/americans-views-on-mobile-etiquette

Data commentary on the 3^rd data

            It shows the survey findings of the Pew Research Center about adult Americans’ views on mobile etiquette in public places and social gatherings. 3217 adult Americans participated in this survey. People have different views on the appropriateness of cellphone usage in different situations. About 75% adults think it is generally acceptable to use cellphone on public transportation, while waiting in a line and even while walking down the street. On the other hand, only about 5% think it is generally OK to use cellphone at quiet public places, at church and during a meeting. A large number of Americans also think it is inappropriate to use cellphone at a family dinner. Furthermore, 62% adult Americans think it is inappropriate to use cellphone at a restaurant. In essence, this survey result gives a general overview on the appropriateness of cellphone usage by adult Americans. We are also expecting to find a similar result at TTU. (Hla)

Rainie, L., Zickuhr, K. (2015, August 26). Americans’ views on mobile etiquette. Pew Research Center. Retrieved March 08, 2016, from http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/08/26/americans-views-on-mobile-etiquette/

Graph Description

The graph describes people’s opinions about the situations where it is okay to use a cell phones. It has been found that the majority of people surveyed feel that it is okay to use a cell phone while walking down the street. On the other hand, the majority of people surveyed felt that that the places that they felt was not appropriate to use a cell phone in is at a church or worship service followed by quiet places such as a movie theater. Moreover, more than half felt that using a cell phone on public transportation and while waiting in line was okay. On the other hand, less than half of the people surveyed mentioned that using a cell phone at a restaurant, family dinner and during a meeting was okay. In addition, when I think about how students at Texas Tech will respond to this survey, I feel that the results will be very similar. However, if we made a comparison between males and females in their use of cell phones, I feel that females will feel that using a cell phone while walking in a street on campus or elsewhere would not be okay because they may feel that using a cell phone while walking makes them more vulnerable. (Abdullah)

Reference

Rainie, L. & Zickuhr, K.(2015, August 26). American’s Views on Mobile Etiquette. Pew research center. Retrieved on March 8,2016 from http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/08/26/americans-views-on-mobile-etiquette

American’s view on mobile etiquette

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

In the figure 3, authors (Rainie and Zickuhr, 2016) conducted a survey on American adults about how they think about using cell phone in various places and occasions. The graph shows that around three quarter of American adults are ok to use their cell phone in while walking in the street, on public transport, and while waiting in a line. On the other hand, majority of them feel that using cell phones is not welcome in meeting, movie theater, and church. People have mixed opinion in using sell phone in restaurants. However, 88% participants think that it is not a good idea to use cell phone in a family dinner. I believe that students of Texas Tech University would give very similar responses on using cell phones. (Nazir Hossein)

Reference:

Rainie L. and Zickuhr K. (2015, August 26). American’s view on mobile etiquette. Pew Research Center. Retrieved on March 08, 2016, from

http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/08/26/americans-views-on-mobile-etiquette/

Data Commentary

                  Pew Research Center has published a chart which shows how people think of cell phones usage in different social situations. There are many given scenarios of the daily life, from walking on the streets to worshiping at the cathedrals, and people would choose whether using their cell phones in each case is appropriate or not. Interestingly, when there is a need for in person interaction or concentration, for example dinning at restaurants or watching movies at public theaters, a large number of people consider the interference of cell phones in these activities is unacceptable. On the contrary, in other situations which also require their attentiveness such as using public transportations or stepping in line, people have the tendency to turn on their cell phones and feel good about that. In conclusion, this chart provide valuable information for us who want to investigate the psychological aspects of cell phones usage because it can illustrate the common choices of the survey sample and provide the typical pattern for a bigger population. Moreover, we can use the data collected from this chart as reliable evidences to justify our hypotheses on human thinking of cell phones usage. (Hoa)

Reference

Pew Research Center. (August 26, 2015). Americans’ views on Mobile Etiquette. Pew Research Center American Trends Panel Survey. Retrieved on Mar 8, 2016 from http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/08/26/americans-views-on-mobile-etiquette/

Data Commentary

The provided chart indicates the data of the survey on cellphone use at the time of the last crash or near crash, by sex, age, percentage. The given question was “where you using a cellphone at the time of the last crash or near-crash your where in?”, and the options were talking, reading text/email, or sending text/email.  As reported in the chart,  male and female were equal in the percentage of reading and sending emails, but in talking their percentages were uneven. Regarding ages in this matter, ages 18 to 20 year-old obtained high percentage in sending text/email than in reading or talking while driving. The highest percentage was in between ages 25 to 34 year-old, where they achieved 10% in talking while driving. In ages 35 to 64 year-old, the percentages were disparate in just talking and almost neutral in texting and sending messages or emails. I expect to find similar result at Texas Tech University especially between male and female. (Eve)

City of Evanston. (2013, May 16). Retrieved March 08, 2016, from http://www.cityofevanston.org/news/2013/05/evanston-ordinance-banning-hand-held-cell-phones-while-driving-in-third-year/

Data Commentary_2

This figure is excerpted from ‘What’s with the historical trend juxtapositions?’ It gives us the relationship between mobile phone subscribers and motor vehicle traffic accidents and deaths from 1994 to 2011. In this figure, we can see, from 1994 to 2011, the number of mobile phone subscribers has been exponentially increased from less than 0.5 hundred millions to more than 3.0 hundred millions. However, the number of motor vehicle traffic accidents and deaths have decreased from 1994 to 2011, whose trend is totally opposite to what people have predicted. The curve which represents ‘total deaths’, keeps nearly flat from 1994 to2007, while after 2007 it drops steeply. The two curves which express ‘property-damage-only accidents per million miles’ and ‘deaths per 100 million miles’ keep coinciding with each other, and both of them have decreased gradually. Based on the information we’ve got from this figure, we can predict that the total number of motor vehicle traffic accidents and deaths might be negatively related to the number of mobile phone subscribers.  (Siyu)