This week’s blog post is to comment on two of my classmates blogs from last week about unobtrusive research. It seems to me that people could be using unobtrusive research without even knowing that they are. This is what Charlie realized once he knew what unobtrusive research was. In his blog post from last week, Charlie talks about his internship and how he used these types of research on a day to day basis. Charlie explains that he used historical and legal research as well as content analysis in order to find government representatives that support regenerative medicine and stem cell research. Mainly he used historical research because he had to look up data that was already processed, analyze it and report to the managers with what he found.
In another one of my classmate’s blogs, unobtrusive research was done at ballparks concession stands. Andrew found an article that talks about how Sports Illustrated conducted unobtrusive research at all Major League ballparks. Throughout the country, the article gives specific foods that are most common as well as how much the product is and how many calories the product is. Actually when reading this article, I thought to myself, “how gross is this? The Northside Twist at a Chicago ball park is 1480 calories! What are people thinking?” Now not everything at the ballparks are this fattening but actually seeing how much a pretzel with some sauces is in calories is mind blowing! As Andrew mentions, unobtrusive research is not always that reliable but it does help out with finding answers in a fast and easy way.
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