To Fear, or Not to Fear? That Is the Question

Overview

Objectives/Goals The goal is to find out what people fear by filling out surveys about fears, and based on those results, determine if fears change with age. Methods/Materials I made a questionnaire based on fears and surveyed 200 willing participants from ages seven to 70 and older. I used about 300 sheets of paper and asked 200 people to fill out the survey. Results My results indicate that 67% of the 200 people surveyed had a fear when they were younger, but it had gone away when they got older, which proves that fear does change as people age. Also, 65% answered that they think their fear(s) will change, which correlates to the first question, if they had a fear that changed or had gone away. This clearly shows most people agree that fears do change with age. Conclusions/Discussion Fears do change as people age, which was my hypothesis. From all the data I collected and analyzed, it shows that the younger someone is, the more fears they have; and as someone grows older and wiser, they have fewer fears. This project has helped me learn a lot about how different age groups have different fears. The most surprising result was natural disasters, which was the fear selected by most people.

Competition history

• CSEF 2018 Behavioral & Social Sciences · Entry J0413

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