Problem:
1. There have been some heavy inputs about my discussion post. Reply back to John with simple paradoxical statements regarding this matter. 150 words.
2. Make sure in-text citations use APA 7 style and add page or paragraph numbers when needed.
To John-
Thank you for sharing your presentation. If I understand your conclusion correctly, you identified a statistically significant relationship between interpersonal trust and support of democratic values in the US. I was a little confused about whether the variables had a positive association or if it was inverse based on the slides, so it was helpful that you clarified this in your discussion post with your clear conclusion statement. On slide 8, you noted that the mean for democratic values question was 8.28 and that this was high (I assume it was on a 10-point scale). Considering the US context, that's not too surprising but it's still interesting to see the data. I didn't see the mean for the trust variable, but you stated that it varies across individuals. Was the mean in the middle of the scale?
Your Question:
Generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted, or that you need to be very careful in dealing with people? Need Assignment Help?
My Response:
This is an interesting question, and I'm glad I didn't have to take the WVS because I'm not sure how to answer it! I think that I fall in the middle and it often depends on context. I'm not sure if I'd say 'most' people can be trusted, but I wouldn't say that I generally feel I need to be very careful dealing with people. I might land right in the middle, and I'll be interested how others would answer the question! Regarding context, I think in certain settings I would say most people can be trusted. For example, in my workplace I think most people can be trusted. However, if I was walking down a dark alley alone in the dark and someone was behind me, I wouldn't trust them at all! Perhaps that means that I am less trusting than I think.
I am likely over thinking the trust question, but I think it highlights an interesting point about self-reported survey data. Context, experience, and timing can all impact how we answer questions related to perceptions. After working through our research questions in this course, I see the value in longitudinal data from surveys like WVS that are administered over time, but also the drawbacks of only evaluating cross-sectional data. Being able to overlay political, global, and economic factors that were taking place near the time the survey was conducted would be interesting. As an example, the Wave 7 survey data we used was pre-pandemic, and the world feels different to me since then. I look forward to the next wave of data so we can see what, if anything has shifted.
From Kim -
References:
Field, A. P. (2018). Discovering statistics using IBM SPSS Statistics (5th ed.). Sage.
Haerpfer, C., Inglehart, R., Moreno, A., Welzel, C., Kizilova, K., Díez-Medrano, J., Lagos, M., Norris, P., Ponarin, E., & Puranen, B. (2022). World Values Survey Wave 7 (2017-2022) Cross-National Data-Set (Version 4.0) [Data set]. World Values Survey Association.