{"id":1048,"date":"2018-12-19T20:25:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T20:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/?page_id=1048"},"modified":"2018-12-19T20:50:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T20:50:07","slug":"interactions-environmental-attitudes-a-statistical-analysis-of-how-experiences-determine-outlook-towards-gouchers-woods","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/interactions-environmental-attitudes-a-statistical-analysis-of-how-experiences-determine-outlook-towards-gouchers-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"Interactions &#038; Environmental Attitudes: A Statistical Analysis of How Experiences Determine Outlook Towards Goucher\u2019s Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Rachel Grosso<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--\n\n<h4>Faculty Intro:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\n\"Maren Stunes\u2019 research paper, completed in Fall 2016 in ES 375, Environmental Justice, demonstrates a critical analysis of the Baltimore City Public Works Department and its decision to shut off water to citizens with outstanding bills. She utilizes a procedural justice lens to critically examine the structural inefficiencies in city government. Baltimore City represents a fascinating case study in this context due to its unique political structure and recent, controversial decisions to shut-off water to its most vulnerable communities. Stunes argues that there is a lack of opportunity for citizens to participate in those decisions that affect their everyday lives and livelihoods. Drawing on literature grounded in water rights, Stunes demonstrates that water has particular significance as a human right. The paper offers a new lens through which to understand structural decision-making processes in city government in Baltimore, highlighting the way in which the most marginal populations continue to be made irrelevant, a process that carries greater weight when analyzed in the context of access to and distribution of water.\"\n<\/p>\n\n--><\/p>\n<h4>From the Author:<\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;This analytical essay sprung from a classwide project during the Fall of 2017. Along with several other Environmental Studies majors, I conducted an online survey of Goucher College students regarding their attitudes towards the Goucher Woods via the platform Qualtrics. The course itself, ES311: Biosphere &#038; Society, focused on teaching data-driven skills in an environmental context, which led us to our topic of choice; we wanted to better understand how the woods on our campus affect students\u2019 attitudes towards \u2018nature\u2019. After spending a few weeks writing and testing the questions, we released the survey for about two weeks, and then dedicated another month of the semester towards analyzing the results with every statistical test we could cover. Very often, environmental attitudes are attributed to gender or race, which while informative, I thought excludes other factors while also forcing binaries and perhaps misguidedly attributing behaviors to certain groups. For this reason, I elected to perform my analysis on the frequency of interaction that students have with the woods, and thus if more frequent interactions influence deeper understanding of regulatory benefits or greater appreciation of aesthetic\/cultural benefits of the woods.<\/p>\n<p>The final product of this analysis was written as my final experience for the course, and I really enjoyed learning how to use different statistical tests such as Lambda, Cramer\u2019s V, and Chi-Square. From question concepts and programming the instrument to analyzing the results in SPSS and writing this paper, I was an integral component of this project, and I felt that I grew as both a data analyst and writer during the course of this endeavor.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/files\/2018\/12\/Grosso-Interactions-and-Environmental-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Interactions &#038; Environmental Attitudes: A Statistical Analysis of How Experiences Determine Outlook Towards Goucher\u2019s Woods<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyrights of all Verge articles and editorial material belong to the authors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Rachel Grosso From the Author: &#8220;This analytical essay sprung from a classwide project during the Fall of 2017. 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