Topic Proposal

My topic proposal is look into how students at the University of Iowa abuse alcohol, by doing this experiment I will see how big of a problem it is for the University of Iowa's underage drinking. I would say by doing this topic it will open up the eyes of everyone and help people understand how many people abuse alcohol and possibly try and prevent people from abusing alcohol. Now obviously this experiment would not be to rat out people who do abuse alcohol it would have to be secretive survey so people can protect their information. This isn't about people casually drinking alcohol but it's about people abusing alcohol every night or so. some of the research questions I would ask is, "how many drinks have you consumed in the past 3 weeks?", and another one, "would you count yourself as someone who go's out a lot?". obviously for my research I would analyze many people from a representative population, then have the people take a survey without mentioning their name or anything that can lead back to them not having the privacy they would deserve. A survey would be the best option concluding I can send it out and have a lot of people respond back to a few questions. I feel that anything else I can do to research the topic of alcohol consumption would be invading people privacy but also it would take a lot of time to do.  

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  1. UnknownOctober 17, 2018 at 9:47 AM

    Parker,
    I like the topic you have chosen as it is extremely relevant to our generation. I think it could be a little "narrower", however it is easy with your research methods to collect information in a few days as a survey would probably be the best option for you. One of your research questions are open ended, however the second one is just a yes or no question. Try to make that into an open ended question.

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