Observations: People Holding the Door for Each Other, Discussion

Discussion:
For our mid-term project, our group has decided to observe, overall, the proportion of men versus women who enter the library. Our group will simply record the number of men and the number of women who enter the library during our monitoring period. To “enter” the library can be operationally defined as a student person who enters through both layers of front doors into the library. Our team wants to find out if, proportionally, more women than men visit the library. In order to determine this, we’ll need to compare our proportional results with the proportions of the AU population. That means obtaining from the appropriate campus office the statistics regarding the AU student population, including: the number of students who attend AU, both graduate and undergraduate; the numbers of which are men and women; and the number of students we need to subtract from our population because they’re studying abroad.