Question

In no more than one single-spaced page, specify a research question that interests you and describe a rough research design you might use to answer it. Be sure to include the following:

• What would your independent and dependent variables be?
• Would you use qualitative or quantitative methods?
• How would you measure your variables of interest?
• How would you determine the relationship between these variables?

Answer 1

Research Question

Are shopping frequency of teenage females and males the same?

Research Design

The independent variable in this study would be the gender which has two types that are females and males.

The dependent variable is the number of times females and males buy something, this will help us to count the frequency of their shopping.

Quantitative methods will be used to identify the relationship between males and females shopping frequency.

The variable of interest that is shopping will be measured by asking one question “How many times you visited a shop today and bought something?” to both and this will be done on daily basis at least for a week but the question will be asked to the same person otherwise the results will make no sense.

Once the data for a week will be collected then we will perform two samples t-test to determine whether the average frequency of shopping between teenage females and males is the same or not.