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Rationale

(state and support RQ’s and hypotheses)

Write about Natalie’s Second Chance, needing donations, standard request versus telling potential donators that even a penny will help, and how that will affect how much money Natalie’s will receive. 

Research Question 1: Will the average amount of donation differ in the the EPH versus the standard request conditions?

Research Question 2: Will the condition to which participants are exposed (EPH vs. SR have an effect on the level of financial need they feel Natalie’s shelter is in).

Hypotheses

Hypothesis 1: A larger percentage of target individuals who receive a request for a charitable donation that includes and “Even a Penny Will Help” (EPH) strategy will donate in comparison to the individuals who receive only a standard request for a charitable donation.

Hypothesis 2: Target individuals given the EPH request will feel that the level of financial need for Natalie’s shelter is higher.

Hypothesis 3:

Hypothesis 4: Target individuals who have made a charitable donation previously will donate more money than those individuals who have never made a charitable donation before.

Methods

(descriptives for the people sampled, our project procedure & our an explanation of our variables and how we tested them) 

A total of 439 participants completed the survey. Of these participants, 240 (54.7%) were female, 194 (44.2%) were male, 2 (0.5%) were transgender, and 3  (0.7%) identified as other. The standard request was randomly provided to 216 of the 439 (49.2%) individuals, while 223 (50.8%) participants received the “Even a Dollar Will Help” request. The average age of the participants was 28.16, and the range was 18-87 years old. The race/ethnicity of the sample was 73.1% (n=321) White, 17.1% (n=75) Asian, 4.8% (n=21) Hispanic or Latino, 2.3% (n=10) Black or African American, 0.2% (n=1) Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 0.2% (n=1) American Indian or Alaska Native, and 2.1% (n=9) other.

Our group started by creating a list of individuals to sample, 8 men and 8 women. We split the target individuals up between the three group members and sent them each a personalized email asking for their participation in our study. 

Results

(this will be the paragraphs in the format provided in the lectures and lab slides)

Hypothesis 1 predicted that a larger percentage of “Even a Penny will Help” (EPH) participants will donate compared to “Standard Request” (SR) participants. To test H1, a chi-square test was conducted crossing the variables request type (EPH, SR) and donation(yes, no). Results revealed a statistically significant difference, χ2(2)=6.29,p=.012,Φ=.12, reflecting that a larger percentage of participants given the EPH request (53 of 439 participants, or 12%) actually donated to Natalie’s compared to participants given the SR (31 of 439 participants, or 7%). These findings support Hypothesis 1 in that request type has a statistically significant, small to moderate impact or effect on whether participants actually donate.

Research question 1 asked if the average amount of donation would differ in the Even a

Penny will Help versus the Standard Request conditions. An independent samples t-test was

conducted to compare request type in terms of average donation. Although the average

amount donated was lower for the EPH (M=9.43, SD=11.23) than for the standard request(M=15.89 ,SD=18.73) the difference between the two groups was not statistically significant,t(75)=-1.895 p=0.062 d= -0.37. In response to RQ1, the data indicate that the average amount of donation does not differ more than would be expected due to chance in the Even a Penny will Help versus the Standard Request conditions.

Discussion

(discuss results and put things into perspective,, discuss limitations on our study & wrap everything up)

Our results indicate that Hypothesis 1 was supported. H1 predicted that the EPH request would garner more donations than the standard request type; our results show that this was indeed the case, and request type had a small to moderate effect on donation. This means that the type of request made to an individual did have a significant effect, albeit small, on if the target individual donated to the charity or not. 

When we see RQ2, it is more affected by the environment of the participants, whether it will affect the level of financial needs of Natalie's shetler. From the results, it appears that this has no obvious impact on the level of financial needs where Natalie’s shelter is located. When this requirement is met, it means that the financial needs of Natalie shelter are higher. 

Appendix A

(we have to put SPSS outputs for descriptives here)

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Appendix B

(SPSS outputs for hypothesis tests here)

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