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 # Project proposal
 
-This planning document will also form the introduction of your 
-argument.
+In this project I'm going to explore the masculinity dataset, which FiveThirtyEight used to determine what men feel makes them masculine. I'd like to explore whether there is a relaitonship between feeling masculine and education or marital status. 
 
 ## Overarching Question
 
 ### What central question are you interested in exploring? Why are you interested in exploring this question?
 
-*This should be the big picture question that you ask; use at least 5
-sentences to describe why you are interested in it.*
+I want to know if masculinity is important to men who do not feel like they are masculine or who might feel insecure. 
 
 ### What specific research questions will you investigate?
 
-*List 2-4 specific research questions. Each should be answerable 
-using your data set.*
+Question 1 - Are men who place a higher importance on masculinity more or less likely to feel masculine? 
+
+Question 2 - What relationship, if any, does education have with self perceived masculinity? 
+
+Question 3 - What relationship, if any does marital status have with self perceived masculinity
+
+I recoginize I may only answer one of these questions, but all three of them are ones I'm interested in. If we were able to spend more time on this, I think I'd like to look at the relationship between how men act/think and their own perceived masculinity.
 
 ## Data source
 
 ### What data set will you use to answer your overarching question? 
 
-*Give the title of your data set and provide a link to your data.*
+Dataset is called "masculinity-survey"
+https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/blob/master/masculinity-survey/masculinity-survey.csv
 
 ### Where is this data from?
 
-*Describe the source of the data set--not just where you downloaded it, but
-the person or organization who gathered the data. Explain why you trust them.*
+masculinity-survey.csv contains the results of a survey of 1,615 adult men conducted by SurveyMonkey in partnership with FiveThirtyEight and WNYC Studios from May 10-22, 2018. This data was used by FiveThirtyEight to write the article "What Do Men Think It Means To Be A Man?"
 
 ### What is this data about?
 
 *Describe the nature of the data in the dataset, including the number of rows 
 and some of the columns which will be important to you.*
+There are 1616 rows of data and 98 columns. I'm specifically going to look at the columns q0001, q0002, q0005, q0009, and educ4. 
+
 
 ## Methods 
 
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 *For each research question, explain what you will do with the data set 
 to answer the question, and how you will present your answer (e.g. a chart or a table).*
+I will create a count chart for perceived masculinity which separates each bar based on the importance they place on masculinity. So we'd have one section for "Somewhat masculine" but a bar each for "not at all important, not too importan, somewhat important, and very important." I think I need to explore the date a little more before having an idea of other charts I could do. 
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