The Most Amazing Thing Just Happened To Me.

[KathyGriffinLovesYou]

The Most Amazing Thing Just Happened To Me.#1

Posted: 11/29/08 at 5:27pm

For the past couple months this has completely comsumed my life. I couldn't go anywhere, I was constantly worrying and working. But now it is over.

I have finished my science fair project.

[Juliash]

re: The Most Amazing Thing Just Happened To Me.#2

Posted: 11/29/08 at 5:28pm

Yaaaaayyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats!

[KathyGriffinLovesYou]

re: The Most Amazing Thing Just Happened To Me.#2

Posted: 11/29/08 at 5:30pm

I AM SO FREAKISHLY EXCITED I CANT EVEN TELL YOU!!!!!!

excuse me i have to go do the last and funnest part of the project. i get to decorate the board.

and yes, Schmerg, there are rhinestones.

[SueleenGay]

re: The Most Amazing Thing Just Happened To Me.#3

Posted: 11/29/08 at 5:32pm

So how did it turn out? All of those who helped you are dying to know. What questions did you end up with and can you post the pictures of the final results? Thanks and congrats!

PEACE.

[KathyGriffinLovesYou]

re: The Most Amazing Thing Just Happened To Me.#4

Posted: 11/29/08 at 5:36pm

Oh well if you are so interested it had VERY cool results-

Devoted Christians are hated MORE than atheists and gays COMBINED

!!!!! FUNSIES!!!

And here is the questionaire I ended up using. It's like the 20th version-

Questionnaire
The point of this is to see how stereotypes effect the assumer and the assumed. Rate how willing you'd be to talk, work, or just interact with someone from that community. 1 is "I would never talk to someone who was this".

Atheists

1 2 3 4 5
Devoted Christians

1 2 3 4 5
Gays

1 2 3 4 5
Lesbians

1 2 3 4 5
Teenagers

1 2 3 4 5
Asians

1 2 3 4 5
Blacks

1 2 3 4 5
Hispanics

1 2 3 4 5
How self-conscience are you?
Not at all Entirely
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Would you consider yourself judgmental?
Not at all Absolutely
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Who/ what taught you to see these groups of people this way? Multiple answers are fine.
A. Family

B. Religion/ Religious leaders

C. Social groups at school or online

D. A defining memory involving an obvious member of that community.


Updated On: 11/29/08 at 05:36 PM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

re: The Most Amazing Thing Just Happened To Me.#5

Posted: 11/29/08 at 5:40pm

How self-conscience are you?

Hope you didn't turn it in yet!

[SueleenGay]

re: The Most Amazing Thing Just Happened To Me.#6

Posted: 11/29/08 at 5:40pm

So what were the results? How are you presenting this? I am just curious how many people you asked and did anyone actually say they would NEVER talk to anyone in these groups?

PEACE.

[KathyGriffinLovesYou]

re: The Most Amazing Thing Just Happened To Me.#7

Posted: 11/29/08 at 5:42pm

well it was rated one to five, 0ne being I would never ever talk to someone like this, and i got like 20 1s. I KNOW. i tested 100 people.
SG, I don't know what you mean by 'how I'm presenting this' and the results are in my last post.

[broadwaytourist]

re: The Most Amazing Thing Just Happened To Me.#8

Posted: 11/29/08 at 5:46pm

Congrats! I am about to have to start marshalling my 6th grader through his. Woe is me.

[SueleenGay]

re: The Most Amazing Thing Just Happened To Me.#9

Posted: 11/29/08 at 5:48pm

You said you had to "decorate the board" with "rhinestones".
What was your conclusion, and how is this science?
Did the Teens hate the Christians? Did the Blacks hate the Hispanics? Did the Lesbians love the Asians? What was the point? And I don't mean that in a snarky way, I just don't see a reason for this "science" project.

PEACE.

[KathyGriffinLovesYou]

re: The Most Amazing Thing Just Happened To Me.#10

Posted: 11/29/08 at 5:50pm

It is PSYCHOLOGY.

And it was about how being judgemental effects your self esteem and how your surroundings affect you.

[StockardFan]

re: The Most Amazing Thing Just Happened To Me.#11

Posted: 11/29/08 at 6:22pm

Congrats on finishing.......rhinestones are a nice touch anywhere!

KFTC!!!!!

[KathyGriffinLovesYou]

re: The Most Amazing Thing Just Happened To Me.#12

Posted: 11/29/08 at 8:07pm

I've always thought so. It looks glorious.

[SueleenGay]

re: The Most Amazing Thing Just Happened To Me.#13

Posted: 11/29/08 at 8:44pm

I am still wondering what the results are. Can't you tell us?

PEACE.

[nexttoelectric]

re: The Most Amazing Thing Just Happened To Me.#14

Posted: 11/29/08 at 8:50pm

Rhinestones do rock. I'm going to incorporate them into the line of Booty Bangels i desgin.

[TheatreDiva90016]

re: The Most Amazing Thing Just Happened To Me.#15

Posted: 11/29/08 at 9:49pm

The results WOULD be nice.

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

[SueleenGay]

re: The Most Amazing Thing Just Happened To Me.#16

Posted: 11/29/08 at 11:24pm

And pictures of the rhinestone poster?

PEACE.

[Unknown User]

re: The Most Amazing Thing Just Happened To Me.#17

Posted: 11/29/08 at 11:32pm

That's a science fair project? Gallup must conduct a lot of science fair projects then.

[skb2010]

re: The Most Amazing Thing Just Happened To Me.#18

Posted: 11/30/08 at 12:06am

Lucky. I have to build a freaking toothpick bridge by Tuesday. Guess I know what I'm doing tomorrow...

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I? I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

[bdwaygirl]

re: The Most Amazing Thing Just Happened To Me.#19

Posted: 11/30/08 at 12:11am

This is amazing?

Did they get rid of the student board?

I hung out with Cheyenne Jackson in his dressing room waayyyyyy before he tickled D2.

"unleash the girly"

Our fingerprints don't fade from the lives we touch.

Puppies are babies in fur coats.

Tinfoil...The Terrorizing Terminator

[A Fleur De Toi]

re: The Most Amazing Thing Just Happened To Me.#20

Posted: 11/30/08 at 7:55am

In hope that perhaps you haven't submitted it, I like to turn your attn to these following points:

1. What is the purpose of this project? So what is Gays are much more well-liked than Devoted Christians? Are you hypothesing that this means the gay rights movement will in future triumph against what the Christian right advocates? Is there a reason why you want to find out about this? Pls tell me you do have a reason.

2. Your questionaire is, to put it mildly, too leading. People might 'play up' to the questionnaire and put 1 for not wanting to speak to devoted Christians but in truth they possibly be interacting with friends who are devoted christians but they just neglect that part of their friend's identity. Your questionnaire assumes people in fixed set of categories - I could be gay, black and a devoted christian. You need to find a way to relate to multiple identities. For example,

would you speak to a gay man?
Would you speak to a gay black man?
Would you speak to a gay white man?
Would you speak to an asian devoted christian? and so on...

only by holding some attributes constant as a control, then you find out which attribute is weighted more in the perception of others! Or else, the results won't say anything!

3. The use of the phrase: " I would not speak to someone who was..." can skew your results. Let's say I disliked gays because of their seemingly wrong value system, that doesn't mean I would not speak to them. So if I were to tick 5 on your questionnaire and have you conclude that I will talk to gays hence I do not dislike them - renders your conclusions, should there even be any, wrong. You can dislike someone but still find it within your civil decorum to be able to communicate.

4. Who taught you to see the groups of people this way?

You shld separate for the different categories. Perhaps If i only hated gays and blacks and at the last question, I will be forced to tick religious B and D. But you won't be able to know which was for which - that could aid in some conclusions so do have separate categories e.g. For gays, why do you see them as such? ABCD
For blacks, why do you see them as such/ ABCD.

That way you can have better results! I also suggest having the option "Other": since some people might have other reasons for disliking these groups.

5. I would assume your questionnaire is aimed at finding out the effect of stereotyping on the WHITE community? Because none of your categories have "I would never talk to someone who is white", so do make sure your respondents are white.

I hope you do understand a little of what I'm saying- it's hard to point out methodological flaws over a message board, but perhaps turn your attn away from those rhinestones to these? Hope everything goes well :)

In Soviet Russia, Wicked hates you too!

[broadwaytourist]

re: The Most Amazing Thing Just Happened To Me.#21

Posted: 11/30/08 at 9:11am

Lighten up folks. This is just a celebration for completing a time consuming project. It is not yours to critique or make suggestions. She/He worked two months on it, and that is certainly enough to give her/him a pat on the back. Just because she/he may not have done it like you would have, doesn't mean it's an unsuccessful project.

[Unknown User]

re: The Most Amazing Thing Just Happened To Me.#22

Posted: 11/30/08 at 9:24am

Au contraire. We can and do critique anything we damn well like. And, if one performed this "science project" here conducted on this board, lepers, the chronically incontinent and Jehovah's Witness would all be more popular than KGLY.
Updated On: 11/30/08 at 09:24 AM

[A Fleur De Toi]

re: The Most Amazing Thing Just Happened To Me.#23

Posted: 11/30/08 at 10:06am

Um, beg to differ broadwaytourist.

No one's saying it is an unsuccessful project or taking any of the commendable hard work away from Kathy. Why view critique in such a bad light?

I personally would welcome any suggestions to tweak my own thesis, rather than having congratulatory pats on my back than honestly, won't mean much, when the grades come back to me.

Of course, she won't have done it as I would have, but that isn't the bone of contention here. The crux is, she hasn't done it in a way that I can understand the rationale of the project. And since a project is meant to illuminate, I see no reason why I shouldn't tell her so.

Spare me the high ground please, I see no reason in celebrating mediocrity.

(Not an ad hominem attack, Kathy, but if you are sensible, I hope you welcome advice more than that meaningless felicitations)

In Soviet Russia, Wicked hates you too!

[StockardFan]

re: The Most Amazing Thing Just Happened To Me.#24

Posted: 11/30/08 at 10:38am

I have a feeling it's too late for her to start over.

KFTC!!!!!