Collecting my own data for a paper has been, in the slightest, introduced to me during my high school physics class. We would perform experiments and record data of various types, later using the data to describe the …show more content…
We were assigned a paper on the upcoming presidential election. Since I was writing this paper around the middle of the campaigning, there was lots of sources that I could pull from. I was asked, as part of the paper, to decide which way all the swing states would go, as well as who would win the election overall. I pulled from a lot of census records to determine the major influencing populations in each of the swing states, and then used the way the various populations typically vote as a way to decide who would get the state’s votes. I also used diagrams and pictures that I refer to in the