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I completed my field data collection over the span of two days from 12:00-14:00 at Creekside Park. Throughout the past month, I have been visiting the site and thinking about my research project, notably the hypothesis and study design. My original hypothesis, “the abundance of bees increase around vibrant colourful flowers and decrease surrounding pale white flowers”, had some subjective terminology that needed clarification. The words ‘vibrant’, ’abundance’ and ‘pale had to either be removed or changed into an objective form. I switched ‘abundance’ with ‘number’, and removed ‘pale’ and ‘vibrant’. I ended up changing my hypothesis to “the number of bees increase around colourful flowers (purple, red, and yellow), and decrease around white flowers”.
I used a random sampling technique to look at bees around 10 flower samples in the park. I have not experienced many problems with the implementation of my study. The accuracy of my study has improved by implementing my sampling on weekdays, a time frame where their are less people to disturb the bees and flowers.
