Genetics survey

My survey for genetic engineering was simple and strait forward. The first question I asked was gender. That good to know because you know who is more informed, girls or boys? The second question I asked was what grade level they were in. I asked that because of my arbitrary behavior. After that I asked if you know what genetic engineering is. That may sound banal but you will be surprised on the results. The other two questions were more in deep. One was if you think genetic engineering is ethical and the other was would you eat genetically modified food.

Now let’s see the results. I surveyed 12 people, 5 girls and 7 boys. Out of the 5 girls 4 of them did know what genetic engineering was. While only 4 of the guys knew what it was. This implies that girls are more informed then boys. Another thing I noticed was that the higher grade levels knew what it was while the lower levels like freshmen did not. This means that genetics is taught at a higher grade level. On the question talking about ethics 4 of the 5 girls say it was perfectly fine to mess with genes. When I asked the boys this question, only 2 out of the 7 said it was ethical. That’s pretty interesting. On the final question 3 girls would eat genetically modified food and 1 might eat it. For the boys only 2 would eat it, 3 won’t eat it and 2 might eat it. One thing that might have affected my data was if they were with friends. Usually people tend to copy one any other cause their too lazy or just don’t want to do it. I think that happened with the girls. Another thing was that some people marked that they did know what genetic engineering was when they actually didn’t know. It was interesting to see what I got.

On my next few blogs I will work on informing the people about genetic engineering and about thinking freely. I thought there was going to be more people against it then for it but I learned a lot in this survey.