Research Reflection – Television and Eyesight

• What area of interest/research question do you wish to explore through a research study design?

                – Does television effect whether or not one needs glasses?

• What variables or concepts are you looking to observe and/or manipulate?

               – Will the people who watch television be more likely to have                    prescription for their eyes than the ones who don’t watch                          television?

• What type of design would best suit your research question? (Experimental, Correlational, etc)

               – Experimental

• What research method would you use to conduct your experiment? (Survey, case study, naturalistic observation, lab experiment, etc.)

              – Case study because I would need people over a long period of                  time.

• If applicable, what would you put as your independent and dependent variables?

               – Independent variable is the use of television

• Give a hypothesis about what you think you might find.

               – The use of television will have a heavy impact on the people                  who watch it and will therefore have those who watch it                          with a much higher chance of needing glasses.

• What might be the benefits and implications of this study? In other words, who would gain from it?

                –  People who care about whether or not their future depends                     on the necessity of glasses or not would benefit from this                         study as well as companies who build television to help                           consumers with how their product effects their eye sight.

• Please reflect on the process of designing this experiment. What were the challenges you faced? Was this more/less difficult than you expected? How?

               – Finding test subjects would be the most difficult part because                 we would need people who never watched television and                        thats hard nowadays. Also to have those subjects uphold                        themselves to not watch any television or be forced to watch                   television everyday would be difficult.