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Project proposal
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?
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?
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?
Dataset is called "masculinity-survey" https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/blob/master/masculinity-survey/masculinity-survey.csv
Where is this data from?
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
How will you use your data set to answer your quantitative questions?
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.