Gillian's Statement: "At the beginning of each interview, we decided to omit the fact that we were inquiring specifically about Islam. The result was that people who connected their answer to religion generally connected their answer to their religion, predominantly Christianity."
Question: Why do you think that telling them that you were acquiring this information specifically for Islam would change their answers to your questions?
Response: I think that it allows them to answer creatively and tie in personal examples from their own religion.
Question: Do you believe that one would sensor their responses is they knew it was being tied back to Islam?
Response: I don't think people would sensor what they would say, but that they would go off assumptions they've made of the Islam religion.
Question: Why do we have assumptions for religions?
Response: It's human nature to make assumptions for anything and I feel that making assumptions for religions are extremely common whether they are true or false.
Question: Do assumptions ultimately effect how one view a religion?
Response/Conclusion: I think they do. We learn a lot about a religion through the things that we hear and some of those things are false. By leaving the information about it being for Islam out, we were able to get their honest answers without any false assumptions made.
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