Lab 2: Questions that MatterCrowdsourcing is the idea of gathering and evaluating data from a variety of people. I was put into a group with Alayna and Sergio to crowdsource on a topic pertaining to the county we decided to crowdsource. We separately perused through the Census Bureau website to look at data on the county we lived in. We all read on the website that in regards to health insurance in Michigan, 5.8% of Michigan residents don’t have health insurance, while 14.3% of Michigan residents live with a disability. We chose Oakland and Macomb county to crowdsource because one or two of us lived in one of the two counties. Alayna and I were chatting in our group chat on what topic to do and Sergio joined in with a thought out idea of how we could do the crowdsourcing. So we all agreed to do that idea which is on the topic of health insurance. I surveyed people on Facebook so I made a google forms survey of all three of our questions so we can get data for all the questions from responders on Facebook. They surveyed people on Instagram on the questions they chose to ask. After 24 hours we shared the results we got with each other and started thinking of how to write the blog posts. The audience turn out I got for the survey on Facebook was really good cause I got 13 people to take the survey. For the first question who do you get your health insurance through 4 people checked Self-Funded while 9 people checked Employer. For the second question does your health insurance cover disabilities 7 checked maybe, 3 checked no, & 3 checked yes. For the third question do you know anyone or did you ever gotten refused health insurance due to a disability 6 checked no, 3 checked maybe, & 4 checked yes. The results on Instagram that Alayna found for the question she asked which was who do you get your health insurance through. The answer options she gave was state, federal, employer, self-funded, or uninsured. She got 13 people to answer the question. The results she got for this question was that 69.2% of people got their health insurance through their employer, while 15.4% were insured through the state, and 7.7% were federally insured or self-funded. The results on Instagram that Sergio found for the question he asked which was does your health insurance cover disabilities. The answer options he gave were yes, no, & don't know. He got 23 people to answer the question. The results he got were that 25% said their health insurance covers their disabilities, 22% said their health insurance doesn't cover their disability, and 52% didn't know if their disability was covered or not by their health insurance. The overall crowdsourcing results were beyond our expectation because our expectation of there being a lot of respondents wasn't very high. What I learned from these results was that people aren't really informed on if their health insurance covers disabilities and that a lot of people get health insurance through their employers. These Charts show the results we got from responders on Facebook: In conclusion this was a really fun crowdsourcing experience. It was fun because we got to ask people questions and get rewarded by them responding to our questions to give us data to write this blog post. This exercise also was a very good teamwork experience because we got lots of data due to the fact that we could split up the survey workload. It was also a learning experience that showed us how our community is like on the topic of health insurance. This assignment was a good practice to get used to using crowdsourcing as a method to get data when one doesn't have much of a network yet. #Health Insurance |
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