to the personality traits and a score of 47 to the appearance traits.The results of the survey clearly show that the research done does not support the original hypothesis. Originally it was expected that males would place greater weight on appearance while females would place greater weight on personality. The results of the survey show that this is false. The survey shows that males and females put almost identical weight in personality traits (47.68, 47.37 respectively). The survey also shows that females put slightly more importance on appearance then males do (40.63, 38.38 respectively). These results show that the original hypothesis is unfound. The results found in this study seem to refute the popular belief that males favor appearance. These results are different from those of prior studies. Based on those studies, the original hypothesis is correct, but research here shows that to be false. This study does however have a few problems that may lead to the results being inaccurate. One of the most obvious problems of the survey is the low number of people that it was given to. The 19 females and 25 males add up to only 44 people, too few to get an accurate random sample. With a sample size this small, there is only a 15% chance that the information is 95% accurate (O'Sullivan 147). In a sample of this size, one person who answers far differently from the others has the ability to alter the averages greatly. Another issue that needs to be addressed is age. The age range of the survey's participants was 17 to 24 years of age. This range is significantly smaller the age range of people relevant to this study. The survey ignores all people younger and older then this range who may have a different opinion then these college aged people. The results of this survey show that perhaps people are spending too much time working on improving their appearance. People spend millions of dollars a year on products and proce...
