Question

Look at the following research questions. What would be an appropriate audience for each one? Why did you come to that answer?

1. How does the use of texting affect high school English grades?
2. What effect do medical budget cuts have on small town hospitals?
3. Does earning an MBA make you a better job candidate?
4. Why does the American government lend money to foreign countries?

Answer 1

1. How does the use of texting affect high school English grades?

The appropriate audience for this question will be student of high school who studied English as a subject and wrote exam for the same. We are choosing this set because from this set of student, we will choose ‘involvement in texting’ as a filter and compare grades of two sub-sets of student who are involved and who are not involved in texting.

2. What effect do medical budget cuts have on small town hospitals?

Here our audience will be hospitals in small town such as Sonoma, Breckenridge, Park city etc. who stopped receiving medical budget. I.e. they used to have medical budget allotted to them but now they are not receiving any budget. We are choosing this set because we can compare their performance when they were receiving medical budget and when they are not.

3. Does earning an MBA make you a better job candidate?

We could target students who have MBA degrees with students do not having MBA degrees. We are choosing these set of students because we can compare effect to MBA by considering employability, pay- scale etc. of these MBA and non-MBA students.

4. Why does the American government lend money to foreign countries?

Here our target audience should be someone who is actively involved in policy making of money lending to foreign nations. We could also target policy makers of countries who is receiving money. We are choosing this because these two set of people will have firsthand information of why money is being exchanged between these two nations and they can provide us with useful insights.