Fun breakdown of this survey, I'm curious about cultural background/country of origin of the people surveyed as that would probably impact the results.. Also as a European I can confirm that it is not uncommon to go as far as having sex on the first date (with it still leading to a long-term relationship), no physical contact or just a hug seems incredibly conservative to me. And men especially believing they should pay on the first date and women being more towards splitting the bill seems to mirror the trend seen in political leaning/ideology as of late which is that men tend to be more conservative and women more liberal. The inequality here also seems to illustrate that men probably see a benefit in being the one paying. There's a lot of ways to interpret these findings and some of these questions could've used more nuanced wording or give an option for an open answer, like "how much time is appropriate to be late?" was most often answered with the middle option, that to me signals that people may have been thinking more about what people in general would consider a normal amount of time as opposed to actually considering their own opinion.
Thanks! The survey was conducted with US participants. Examining cultural backgrounds/countries of origin would be a really interesting followup study! I talked to my friend that lives in Ukraine and she told me the norm is either handshake or no physical contact on the first date, so there's definitely some variance that would be interesting to study! And agreed on the differences between men and women's beliefs on paying for the first date. There's many ways to interpret it. Potentially could've used a followup question asking why they think so. Regarding people selecting the midpoint option, this would be a potential issue with participants not wanting to seem too extreme on either side. So selecting something in the middle might come off as "reasonable" to them, biasing them toward it. Thanks for the feedback!
Very interesting! Thank you!
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Fun breakdown of this survey, I'm curious about cultural background/country of origin of the people surveyed as that would probably impact the results.. Also as a European I can confirm that it is not uncommon to go as far as having sex on the first date (with it still leading to a long-term relationship), no physical contact or just a hug seems incredibly conservative to me. And men especially believing they should pay on the first date and women being more towards splitting the bill seems to mirror the trend seen in political leaning/ideology as of late which is that men tend to be more conservative and women more liberal. The inequality here also seems to illustrate that men probably see a benefit in being the one paying. There's a lot of ways to interpret these findings and some of these questions could've used more nuanced wording or give an option for an open answer, like "how much time is appropriate to be late?" was most often answered with the middle option, that to me signals that people may have been thinking more about what people in general would consider a normal amount of time as opposed to actually considering their own opinion.
Thanks! The survey was conducted with US participants. Examining cultural backgrounds/countries of origin would be a really interesting followup study! I talked to my friend that lives in Ukraine and she told me the norm is either handshake or no physical contact on the first date, so there's definitely some variance that would be interesting to study!
And agreed on the differences between men and women's beliefs on paying for the first date. There's many ways to interpret it. Potentially could've used a followup question asking why they think so.
Regarding people selecting the midpoint option, this would be a potential issue with participants not wanting to seem too extreme on either side. So selecting something in the middle might come off as "reasonable" to them, biasing them toward it. Thanks for the feedback!
i wish you included p values in the stats, ik p values aren't everything regarding statistical significance but it is better than nothing