Holding Open The Door

For this assignment on collecting and analyzing naturalistic data I collected data on what percent of students held open the door entering and exiting Beatty hall. There are four categories that student can fall into during this study students that: don’t hold open the door, wait and hold open the door, automatically hold open the door, and don’t have anyone to hold the door open for. The people that automatically hold open the door are passing the door to someone immediately behind them. I hypothesize that 20% of students to enter Beatty will wait and hold the door for the next person and that an additional 30% will automatically being holding the door for the next person due to proximity. The remaining 50% will be 30% of students that don’t hold the door and 20% where there is nobody around to hold the door for. I estimated these hypothesized amounts based my experience of going in and out of Beatty over the last 4 years. Figure 1 is a pie chart providing a visual of the hypothesized percent of people holding the

It is important to note I am considering a person who is within 6 steps of the door clearly going to enter the building as the distance of an opportunity to hold open the door. During this 20 minutes 149 people entered or exited the building. Of those 149 people 31 people did not have anyone to hold open the door for leaving 118 people that had the ability to hold the door for the next person. Of the 118 people 94 people held open the door while 24 people let the door close on the next person. Within those 94 people that held open the door 67 people held the door for someone who was a step behind them which still counts as holding the door but not as substantial as the remaining 27 people who decided to wait and hold the door. A pie chart breaking down the statistics can be seen in figure