Gender And Aggression Analysis

Not long after I viewed another similar situation. Two people who looked to be in their thirties and be a couple did the same thing as the large group. They ran to the middle of the road to wait to cross. You could see that drivers were getting frustrated. One woman in particular who appeared to be in her fifties honked her horn. I believe the stress of people being in the road as well as it being dark fueled her frustration. I believe many people driving during this time felt frustration, but these two incidents in particular stuck out to me.

The data I collected was good data in my opinion. One of my theories was that gender is connected to aggressive driving. I feel that after doing my observations gender was not really related to aggression.

The information I collected for my literature review stated that younger drivers under the age of forty were more likely to be aggressive when driving. I did see some older drivers (fifty and up) getting aggressive while driving, but the large majority of the people I viewed that were getting aggressive or angry were between the ages of twenty and thirty-five. I do believe that my findings were enough to say that there is a link between aggression, and age. I did find that traffic seemed to annoy people. I did not think it necessarily made them aggressive. During my observations I viewed people honking horns as well as throwing their hands up, not allowing people to merge, but I did not see any other kinds of aggressive driving. I think this is because when you are stuck n traffic it is hard to do anything because you cannot go anywhere. I did not collect enough data to say that there was a link between these two

It was much more hands on then just doing research on my computer so I enjoyed it. It was good to get out, and view what the data said for myself. Doing research behind a computer can get boring so I enjoyed doing it in person because I did not know what was going to happen. I believe my idea about what was going to happen was pretty accurate I did know that if I went during the times I did that people would be angry driving.

I do not feel like I was out there long enough to a clear observation. I know that it is hard to do more then ten hours for a class like this, but I feel if my observation were longer I would have had a more clear understanding. I also feel if I would have went to the same location multiple days I may have got better results, but I wanted to go to multiple locations and see what the change would be. I do believe it was good to go to different areas because I saw things at Van Andel arena that I did not see down by the bridge on Pearl