1-3 Assignment Leadership Assessment and Reflection

1-3 Assignment Leadership Assessment and Reflection

Shanon Beck

October 26th, 2023

I was not surprised about the results of my Big Five personality traits assessment, although it did help me better understand my leadership style and how I can better refine my leadership skills. I scored high on my openness, which I have always prided myself on; I am always looking for ways to improve the workplace for my team and instill change to improve my company as a whole. I scored very high on Conscientiousness, which I am semi-surprised about as while I thrive on organization, my developmental disabilities make it much harder for me to achieve and keep up with, although I do find myself being a workaholic.

I scored moderately high on extraversion, which I am very surprised about, as while I do find myself being very sociable on occasion, especially with my team. I am not an overly social individual outside of my workplace, and rather I lack quite a lot of social skills due to my disabilities. I do find myself being able to be assertive when I need to, but also open and accommodating depending on the situation, which has helped me foster a very agreeable and accepting work environment for my team, raising morale and productivity. This leads me to how I scored moderately high on agreeableness, which I am not surprised at all. I do not enjoy conflict and would rather work with my team side-by-side instead of trying to solve everything with an iron hammer. I unsurprisingly scored low on Neuroticism, which I believe helps me a lot with my leadership at (blank), especially during the long and hard holiday months.

Ultimately, I believe my high score on extraversion and agreeableness has helped me be a wonderful leader to my team, especially compared to our other “leaders,” are have relied more heavily on an authoritarian style of leadership. Additionally, leadership impacts an organization in many, many ways … it can impact the flow of a workplace, employee turnover, and customer experience. Having a true leader manager will lead to a better customer experience, lower employee turnover and ultimately high sale margins than if an organization had a lack of leadership.

7-3 Project Two Regional vs. National Housing Price Comparison Report

7-3 Project Two Regional vs. National Housing Price Comparison Report

Shanon Beck

MAT-240 Applied Statistics

October 15th, 2023

Report: Regional vs. National Housing Price Comparison

Shanon Beck

Southern New Hampshire University

Introduction

The purpose of this report is to determine whether or not the average housing prices and housing square footage in the Mid-Atlantic region are lower than the national market. In order to do this, we took a sample of 500 houses from the Mid-Atlantic region and will use that sample to compare the housing prices of the Mid-Atlantic region to the national market, as well as the square footage of the given housing sample. In order to get the housing sample, we took all of the houses from the Mid-Atlantic region and assigned them a random value between 0 and 1 using the RAND() function; we then sorted the random values from lowest to highest and took the first 500 from that list, excluding duplicate numbers. For our report, we have two distinct hypotheses we would like to confirm or deny. The first is our t-test on the Mid-Atlantic Sample Housing Prices. Given the variable, our Null hypothesis is HO: μ = 288407, while our alternative hypothesis is H1: μ < 288407, which is a 1-tailed test. Our second t-test is the Mid-Atlantic sample square footage, with our null hypothesis being HO: μ = 1944 and our alternative hypothesis being H1: μ ≠ 1944, which uses a 2-tailed t-test. In order to solve our t-test hypothesis, we will determine the confidence level and take note of the probabilities of those hypotheses being true.

For our first variable (housing price), we have our 1-Tail Test, with our Null hypothesis being HO: μ = 288407 and our alternative hypothesis being H1: μ < 288407. Our significance level is 95%.

Data Anylsis

Compared to our national market, our sample data is skewed heavily to the right, while the national data is only moderately skewed to the right. Our average mean is lower than the national mean of 288,407 (-45,034). Our test is a 1-tailed test, with a t-statistic of 5.43, and a p-value of 0. 00000004326036. Given this, our confidence value is 95% that our median listing price falls between $227,090 and $259,657. We reject the null hypothesis of HO: μ = 288407 based on the strong evidence that the alternative hypothesis is correct.

2-Tailed Test

Four our 2-Tailed Test, we tested whether or not the average square footage of our region is lower than the national market. Our null hypothesis is HO: μ = 1944, while our alternative hypothesis is H1: μ ≠ 1944.

Compared to our national market, our average mean is lower (1,944), with similar histograms, our t-statistic if -16.83, while our p-value is 0. Given this information, we have a confidence level of 95% that the average square footage falls between 1,664 and 1,722; therefore we reject or null hypothesis on the basis that it is basically impossible that the square footage equals 1944.

Final Conclusion

Our final conclusion is that both the average listing price and average square footage in the Mid-Atlantic region is smaller than that of the national market. I am not surprised by this given that the Mid-Atlantic region (where I live) has a long history, hundreds of years back when houses were on-average smaller, while rest of the country is relatively new compared to the Mid-Atlantic States.

IDS-100 7-1 Project

IDS-100 7-1 Project

Shanon Beck

IDS-100 Perspectives in Liberal Arts

October 13th, 2023

The Four Lenses are identified as the humanities, the social sciences, the natural sciences, and history. The humanities study the actions and works of human beings, for example, the musical symphonies played by Beethoven. As well as how those actions and those works (especially works of art) impacted the time period that they were created in, how they interacted with society. The humanities use a variety of primary and secondary sources to study the impact of each work and/or action taken. This is in stark contrast to the natural sciences which use only primary sources to study their focuses. The natural sciences are the study of the natural world and how we fit in it. This is done through the scientific method and peer-reviewed papers, the natural sciences seek to understand better how the world works and seek technological improvements.

The social sciences, on the other hand, study social interactions, relationships and how we treat each other. For example, the complex social influences behind many of the civil rights era issues. Social sciences use a variety of primary and secondary sources, for example, autobiographies and historical artifacts. Similar to the history lens that relies on primary sources but will also make use of secondary sources. History is the study of the past and it’s impact on humanity as a whole, for example, the lasting impacts that the downfall of the Roman empire had on today’s world.

I chose justice for my research project, but specifically, I would like to learn more about the intersectional relationship between the justice system and disability rights, as it’s a topic that directly affects me as someone who has been diagnosed with multiple neuro-developmental disorders. Examining my previous experiences and knowledge and reflecting on the four lenses, I would like to think I know a decent amount about the subject matter. When we are examining justice, everyone will give you a different answer as to what it means … one person will say that the justice system is fair, reasonable, and speedy. While another person directly after will tell you it’s unfair, takes too long, and corrupt. Personally, I have had a run-in with the justice system after getting into an accident almost a year ago, which I believe was unfairly handled, especially when they refused even to take my side of the story.

Outside of the traditional “justice” system, I also believe justice extends to how society treats people and the equity given to protected groups. Personally, as someone with multiple disabilities, I have had my fair share of poor treatment from society, especially our educational system(s); and I do not feel like I had the justice I deserved. Going forward, I would like to learn a lot more about justice as it pertains to the four lenses, and I propose these questions to do that:

• Why are so many people falsely accused of crimes?
• How has forensic science contributed to the justice system?
• How has the court system accommodated disabled individuals?
• How has social media impacted the justice system?

In regard to my listed questions, these are the answers I found:

The provided resources did not provide me an adequate answer to this question; although looking at the question through the stigma and bias towards minority groups does give me one key to the puzzle. A lot of false accusations and convictions likely have a bias or stereotype fueling it, either from the judge, jurors or prosecutor's point of view. Additionally, I feel the best way for me to answer this question is to research past cases of false accusations and how the individual were eventually exonerated.

How has forensic science contributed to the justice system?

According to “Looking Backwards At Old Cases,” forensic science has led to significant advances in how justice is served and has lowered the rate of wrongful conviction significantly. For example, the clearance rate in homicide cases was higher (63.1%) if the case had forensic evidence involved. However, there have been many impediments in the effectiveness of forensic evidence due to misrepresentation by lawyers and judges.

How has the court system accommodated developmentally disabled individuals?

This question was not adequately answered by the provided sources, albeit it shares a lot of similarities in how the justice system has treated minorities in the past and present. Personally, as someone with ASD, and have been an avid advocate for years, I have done immense research into this topic previously and will be doing even more research into the topic going forward, especially when it comes to journals on the matter.

How has social media impacted the justice system?

While the source material(s) did not touch on social media all that much, I learned a lot about how the media as a whole has impacted the opioid crisis. Characterizing it as a middle-income White problem while characterizing cocaine and heroin as Black drugs creating a lot of stigma towards heroin use compared to opioid use. Additionally, “What do protest songs sound like today?”, made incredible points on how music has been used to protest and show solidarity during resent protests and civil rights issues.

Furthermore, I decided to examine my topic of justice through the history and social science lenses. Examining justice through the history lens I have learned quite a bit about previous historic events that have led to the development of our modern justice system and the injustice we still see today. Take the racially biased laws from the Jim Crow era and how those feelings of racial bias are still affecting today’s society, especially in the eyes of media and how it represents issues affecting African Americans vs how popular media represents issues affecting White Americans. Similar to the social science lens, which deals with how us, as humans, interact, socialize, and relate to each other. Examining justice through the social science lens has led me to learn quite a bit about modern events we see today, like the George Floyd protests and the lack of justice that led to those protests to begin with. When comparing justice through the history and social science lenses, we can see a number of differences and similarities – the most notable being that history deals with what was, and how it affected society. While the social science lens not only deals with human relationships of the past, but more notably social interactions of today.

Additionally, I would like to continue to explore justice through both of these lenses, but as well as the humanities and natural science lenses. As all four would allow me to get a more complete picture: for example, “How has artistic expression helped support social justice during the civil rights era?”, or “What efforts have been made in natural science to ensure equity within research studies?”.