RESULTS
Table 1 – EQ survey of Skipton
Graph 1 – EQ graph of Skipton
Table 2 – EQ survey of Bradford
Graph 3 – EQ of Bradford
INTERPRETATION
Hypotheses 1 - Skipton will have a higher EQ than Bradford.
I believe that this hypotheses is correct as Bradford is a big industrial city whereas Skipton is a more or less a rural ‘village.’ This means that in Bradford there is a bigger population and the bigger the bigger the population the more domestic pollution there is. Bradford is a vast industrial city meaning that there is more industrial waste. There is a smaller quantity of greenery where as Skipton is surrounded by countryside meaning there is more greenery. Looking At Graphs 1 and 3 you can obviously relate the information stated above that Skipton’s EQ levels are much higher than Bradford’s
Hypotheses 2 –EQ will increase the further you get from the CBD.
This hypothesis is true as the CBD has a lower EQ than the outer city. This is because the CBD is heavily congested but looking at Graphs 1 & 3 in Skipton the EQ seems to be more or less consistently high whereas Bradford’s is not consistent at all. This could be because of the mass difference of population.
CONCLUSION
The first hypotheses proved to be true as the EQ of Skipton was higher than Bradford’s in total Skipton was 54 points higher than Bradford.
The second hypotheses was also proved correct as the further out of the CBD you go the EQ rises. For example in the CBD in Skipton the EQ for “Buildings” was 3 and in the outer city it was 5.
CRITIQUE
If I were to do this investigation again one of the things that I would change is the distance outside of Skipton I walked, In future I would perhaps walk another 600 paces so I walked a total of 2000 paces. I would also repeat this procedure throughout the week (every single day) to see how the results vary as, say for example on market day there are more people in Skipton that may leave litter and during the week someone from the council could have it arranged for the litter to be picked up. I believe that this will bring me more accurate results.
