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To acquire these 10 photos that I observed, I started out asking friends. However, I did this in a methodical process. I would ask them in a raised voice in places like my large lectures, or population dense classes like chapel. So while I would get the picture of my friend’s tattoo, I would also have one or two other people who were sitting in proximity to me overhear my “private” conversation and allow me to take pictures of their tattoos as well. Throughout my pictures, I received a gender distribution of 60% females and 40% males. While this is slightly skewed from a 50/50 split, it is reflective of the Baylor gender ratio. I also have a pretty equal balance of majors; there is not a major that overly represented within my pictures, they

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