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• THE PROJECT
  • DESCRIPTION
  • DESIGN
  • EXPERIMENTS
  • MEASUREMENTS
  • RESULTS
• TEAM MEMBERS
• PARTS RECORD
  • TEAM PARTS
  • BASIC PARTS
  • COMPOSITE PARTS
  • PART COLLECTION
• THE NOTEBOOK
• ATTRIBUTIONS
• COLLABORATIONS
• HUMAN PRACTICE
• LAB SAFETY
• OUR SPONSORS

HUMAN PRACTICE

Surveying the Land

The team wanted to get a preview of how our idea would be perceived by the general public. As a result, in order to get a better understanding of what the general public knows about GMOs and probiotics, we created an online survey. The goal was to have a survey that gradually gives more information about GMOs to measure initial comfort with GMOs, educate a wide range of people about what GMOs actually are, and measure their williness to support GMOs afterwards. The people who took the survey ranged from 18 to 50+ years old and had an education background ranging from high school to advanced profession degrees. The survey can be found here. Please feel free to continue to contribute to it and expand our dataset! In addition, we acknowledge the fact that our sample size may be skewed towards people who are already interested in synthetic biology based on how we advertised it (through the team and personal forms of social media), but the information gleaned from the data we collected is still rather useful and allows us to be more insightful.

So, what exactly did we find out from our survey? Well for one, on a scale from 1-5 with 5 being the most comfortable, 58.3% of people has a comfort level less than or equal to 3. This confirms our suspicion that most people are not all too comfortable with the ideas of GMO.