Human

Question 1

What is the title for human

Answer 1

Investigating climate change mitigation in purbeck

Question 2

What is the hypothesis for human

Answer 2

The community of Purbeck are actively supporting the use of renewable energy

Question 3

Location justification for human

Answer 3

-older demographic
-affluent area
-failed wind farm recently
-coastal location (potential wind/solar farms )

Question 4

Description of method (local residents survey) for human fieldwork

Answer 4

• we asked closed questions such as do you have solar panels or an electric vehicle
  -we asked open questions such as how do you think swanage is changing to renewable energy
  -completed survey in swanage town centre
  -used a random sampling method when people came towards us we asked them
  -we collated the data by putting it in graphs and bar charts

Question 5

Justification method:
Why did you use closed and qualifying questions?

Answer 5

These types of questions would allow us to see if there were any difference of opinions between ages and gender and easy to present as graphs

Question 6

Justification method:
How does the answer from an open ended question help you get data to prove / disprove your hypothesis

Answer 6

The quotes from interviewees help us to support our findings from the data analysis of closed questions

Question 7

Justification method:
Why we chose our sampling method and sample size for human fieldwork

Answer 7

Using a random systematic approach allowed us to get a more representative sample across age groups and genders. By collating all our data we were able to get a sample size of 323 (3%of population). This provides broad range of opinion.

Question 8

Justification method:
Explain why the questionnaire produces data that easy to present?

Answer 8

These types of questions are easy for people to answer and give us quantitative data that is easy to present as graphs and charts

Question 9

Justification method:
What constraints were you under in completing this method for human fieldwork

Answer 9

We only had one hour to complete the questionnaire on one day. We also needed to make sure we were only asking local residents not visitors.

Question 10

Was our human fieldwork hypothesis proven or disproven

Answer 10

Disproven

-majority of people (86%) don’t have solar panels
-around 20-25 % of people had an ev/hybrid car
-15-25% actively supporting renewable energy

Question 11

Improvements for our investigation for human fieldwork

Answer 11

-responses from local business or public government
- information on planned renewable developments

Question 12

Evaluation
Strengths of our investigation human fieldwork

Answer 12

-mix of open and closed questions
-hypothesis was narrow therefore testable
-highly relevant enquiry considering climate change
-secondary research supported findings
-questionnaire was simple and effective

Question 13

Evaluation
Weaknesses of investigation human fieldwork

Answer 13

-no younger people
-small sample size
- incomplete entries
-forgetting to check people were local
-hard to identify solar panels on property with 100% accuracy

Question 14

How did we present our data for human fieldwork

Answer 14

-all questionnaires were entered into a central spreadsheet
-we used spreadsheet software to convert into pie charts
-simple yes no questions were converted into bar charts
-we used composite bar charts to show people’s level of support for different renewable energy
-these charts were also broken down by age group
-all these charts helped us to visually see patterns and anomalies