sábado, 12 de mayo de 2012

GO!

To finish with this project we are going to present well the results and the conclusion. It will be better explained than in the presentation.

About the results, we have measured the factors and in three different ways.
The factors are tolerance and discrimination, leisure, services and the peer group.
The first one, tolerance and discrimination, was measured with a survey. There were two types of surveys, one for people who lives in selected neighborhood, and another for the gay collective. The weight of this factor was 40%. We have done the “general” survey to 24 people, 6 per neighborhood; we have tried to do 2 surveys for seniors, 2 for families and 2 for young people. On this way, with a little sample we have a big range of age.

In Barrio Salamanca, in question number one, 4 people have answered that they don’t mind if homosexual collective is discriminate, and two people answered that they think is a normal population. On question number two, if they think that gays are discriminated, 2 people think that yes, they are and 4 people think that they are not discriminated. In questions number 3 and 4 all people think that Chueca is the better place two live for them and is the place where they normally live. In question number 5, 2 people said perhaps, two yes and two no, in the question number six, four people said yes and two no. In question number seven all people said yes, that in Chueca are a lot of homosexual peer groups. In the question number eight match all people too, they choose a (night clubs), b (restaurants, bars) and c (spa’s, public swimming pool, colleges..).

In Villaverde neighborhood, in question 1, two people said that they don’t mind and four people that is a normal population. In second question, two people answered “I don’t know” and four people said no, they are not discriminated. In question number 3 and 4, all people match in Chueca. In questions 5 and 6, all people answered no, they don’t mind if its neighbor were homosexual, neither if they had children. In question number seven everybody said yes, that they think there is a lot of homosexual peer groups in Chueca, and in question number 8, six of six think that homosexual people want a, b and c, like in barrio Salamanca.

In Francos Rodriguez, in question number 1, two people answered “I don’t mind” and four people think is a normal population. In question 2 everybody answered that gays are not discriminated. In question 3 and 4 all people said Chueca. In question 5 and 6, six of six answered no. in question seven everybody think that there are a lot of homosexuals in Chueca (yes). And in question 8, they have said the same than in the others neighborhood (a, b and c)

In Chueca, in question number one, all people think that is a normal population, in number two, everybody think that they are not discriminated, in number 3 and 4, six of six answered Chueca, in number 5 and 6 all people said no, in number 7, four people said yes but 2 people answered “not a lot” and in number 8, the same, night clubs, restaurants, spa’s, colleges..

The second survey, which we have done to gay people, have more general results, due to it was an open-ended survey. We answered about our questions to eight gays men. Usually, in the first question, they answered that they are comfortable everywhere if they are not discriminated against or looked rarely.
In the second question, where we asked them if they think that nightlife is an important factor when you are going to choose where to live, due to the gays people fame, they answered that nightlife it is important to choose the city, but not the neighborhood.
In question number 3, do you think that all homosexual people want to live in Chueca? They said no, maybe some gays from others cities that think that Chueca will be better.
In question number 4, is someone of your peer group living in Chueca? Someone told us that he has some friends living in Chueca, but they live there for other reasons, not for being gay. Maybe some gays from others cities that think that Chueca will be better
In question 5, do you think that people discriminate homosexuals? They usually answered us no, that there are old thoughts people everywhere, but in general they feel accepted.
In question 6, what would you like to have in your neighborhood? In general, they answered subway stations, close to city center, shops and stores, some late clubs, or close parks. Others said that they want to have some good schools and parks for children, so in the future they pretend to have children.

For us this has been the most difficult factor to measure.

The second factor, leisure, was measured searching in internet and reading tourist guides of Madrid, where users who give their opinion and are familiar with these neighborhoods. Also we visit the different neighborhoods to see how bars, night clubs and other leisure places are in the different district. Chueca is the neighborhood with the high number of places like that.
 
The third and the fourth factor to measure was peer group and services, with surveys that we did to gay people, we could see that they worry about this factor like any other person, so it depends on the person if that factors have more or less important for him.
 
As a conclusion after carrying out the survey to these 24 people from the selected neighborhoods we found that the responses depend on the district and the age of people.
In general, elderly people with closed minds believe that homosexuality is not normal or they don’t must to have children. However, younger people believe that they are normal and they can be parents perfectly.
 
Moreover, we have analyzed the results in terms of neighborhoods. We have obtained that in Barrio Salamanca people are stricter in their ideas, with oldest thoughts, so they don’t agree with homosexual thoughts.
In Villaverde don’t give importance to this group, because since it’s a “marginal” neighborhood, all coexist in the same place without discrimination or distinctions.
In Francos Rodriguez, we get consistent results, as people claim they don’t discriminate homosexual and they respect their sexual orientation. 
Finally in Chueca, known for homosexual activity, clearly respects all people, as it’s an open minded, modern and bohemian place. 
 
To conclude the project, we can say that people think that Chueca is the better neighborhood for gays to live. In our investigation, apart from the surveys, we have proved that is the best place where they can carry better their lifestyle and where they are most including, which doesn’t mean that in other neighborhoods don’t feel comfortable
In gays opinion, there are neighborhood where accept better homosexual people and where they feel more comfortable, but not necessary Chueca, they feel right in most places
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martes, 8 de mayo de 2012

Are you sure you are Steady?


Let´s begin with the reason why we have chosen this topic which is the fascinable world of homosexual people.
Most of the times homosexual people are very cheerful, friendly, party-goers, open minded, tolerant, outgoing. But what  who live around them?
Firstly Let us first define the factors.Tolerance is , in our opinion, the most important factor  because depending on the people living in your neighborhood you´ll  be more or less comfortable.  So will measure this factor with a survey in which we will find out which of the four districts is the most tolerant.The weight of this factor will be 40%.
Some of the questions are:

1. What do you think about homosexuality?

- I think it's normal population.

- I think it's a problem for the population.

- I do not mind.

2. Do you think that homosexuals are discriminated against?

- Yes

- No

- I don’t know.

3. From your point of view, what is the district

with the highest homosexual population?

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Other factor that we would like to measure which it´s related to the fisrt one is descrimination. We believe that if in the neighborhood where you live, your neighbors will discriminate on your sexual orientation, then you should wonder if it is the best place to live . So it also becomes an important factor, which also will be measured with some survey questions and it has a weight of 15%.
For these two factors we will use some indicators we consider relevant :the average ege of the population, beliefs (religion, morality..) and finally we think it´s also important the neighborhood lifestyle. With this last indicator we mean if the neighborhood has a good economic level or not.

Of course it is necessary to pay attention to the peer group, as it is imporant not to feel alone, meaning that you feel support. We will measure the type of neighborhood, if is a trendy, bohemianmore secretive as you can be Salamanca´s neighborhood , and so on. The neighborhood type will represent the 25%

On one hand leisure is very important to them, as they are very outgoing and like to go out with friends. Therefore in the visit to each district we´ll make an observation on the number of bars, nightclubs, coffee shops, unique for homosexuals which will be our way to measure the leisure. We will look for some information  on internet  and visit  each neighborhood  and give a porcentage of 10%.
But on the other hand also look real important the facilities they have. Such as hotels can feel comfortable, spas,  schools, gym, etc.. But not only for  homosexual´s comfort, but of homophobic people..
This will be measured in a quantitative manner depending on the number of hotels, spas and other services.
In terms of importance this last point will be the 10% of the factors.

From our point of view, we think these are the  most important factors and indicatos of our research and will be useful to find out the conclusion.

sábado, 5 de mayo de 2012

Steady?

Let´s begin with the reason why we have chosen this topic which is the fascinable world of homosexual people. 
Most of the times homosexual people are very cheerful, friendly, party-goers, open minded,
tolerant, outgoing. But what about the people who live around them? 
Firstly Let us first define the factors.Tolerance is , in our opinion, the most important factor  because depending on the people living in your neighborhood you´ll  be more or less comfortable.  So will measure this factor with a survey in which we will find out which of the three districts is the most tolerant.
Other factor that we would like to measure and it´s related to the fisrt one is descrimination. We believe that if in the neighborhood where you live, your neighbors will discriminate on your sexual orientation, then you should wonder if it is the best place to live . So it also becomes one of the most important factors, which also will be measured with some survey questions.

On one hand leisure is very important to them, as they are very outgoing and like to go out with friends. Therefore in the visit to each district we´ll make an observation on the number of bars, nightclubs, coffee shops, unique for homosexuals. 
But on the other hand also look real important the facilities they have. Such as hotels can feel comfortable, spas, etc.. But not only for  homosexual´s comfort, but of homophobic people..
This will be measured in a quantitative mannerdepending on the number of hotels, spas and other services.

From our point of view, we think these are the factors and indicators most important to our research and  we expect them to be easy to measure


jueves, 3 de mayo de 2012

Ready?

The group is formed by:
Jéssica París ,Esther González ,Isabel Masa
and we are students from 2ºA class.


In this project we would like to measure different factors related with our topic, which is the liveability in different neighborhoods, for homosexual people.
We will measure, Carabanchel, Barrio del Pilar, Chueca and Salamanca.