Chapter 5

A really useful tip that I found in Chapter 5 was gathering demographic information by using surveys, or questionnaires. I am a big fan of using statistics in my speeches and essays, but I have never thought about doing the research first-hand and finding out the statistics on a topic on my own. I usually research statistics on the internet, which is not the best way because there are so many surveys on the same topics with different results. Results can vary upon location, race, gender, age, and many other factors. But conducting a survey yourself might have more valid results because you know the details of your population sample so you know how bias the results could be. I will take this into consideration for my next speech.