Thursday, March 3, 2011

Exercise and Stress - Survey

EAP1 - Core
Larissa Vasconcelos

Our research was about how American and International people feel about exercises. We interviewed 82 people, 42 American and 40 International. Of these people, we also divide in gender: 47 were male and 35 were female.
The survey shows that, in general, men are more interested in exercise than women, whether American or International. According to survey responses, for women the main reason that keeps them away from Rec Center, for example, is that they don't have a partner. On the other hand, for men, the main cause is lack of time.
This study showed us some interesting aspects such as viewpoints between men and women, American and International. For women, 80% of American chose health and relieving stress as the thing more attractive in do exercises against 20% that chose socializing and have fun as a main reason. The International women showed a close percentage to the same opinion, with about 87% and 13%, respectively. While for men, Americans seem divided with 59% that chose health and relieve stress and 41% think that the more attractive is socializing and have fun. When we compare them with the International ones, there is a considerable difference, where 80% chose health and relieve stress as the first reason to do exercise against 20% that chose socializing and have fun.
Finally, this research shows that, according to students, American are more interested in exercises than International. About 79% think that American are more interested against 21% of International.
In short, this survey was very interesting because we could have some idea about differences and similarities among men, women, Americans and International. When we consider the result of the survey, I must to say that I was very surprised about the indexes, which indicates that American like more exercise than another nationalities people. My surprise can be justified by the fact that many times we created stereotypes about some people. So, this survey was important to show that this stereotype is not accurate.

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