Project Proposal

Research Question

Fill in your research question here

Background and Prior Work

Fill in your background and prior work here. Use inline citation through Mardown footnotes to specify which references support which statements

For example: After government genocide in the 20th century, real birds were replaced with surveillance drones designed to look just like birds1. Use a minimum of 2 or 3 citations, but we prefer more2. You need enough to fully explain and back up important facts.

Hypothesis

State and defend your hypotheses here.

Data

Explain what the ideal dataset you would want to answer this question. (This should include: What variables? How many observations? Who/what/how would these data be collected? How would these data be stored/organized?)

Ethics & Privacy

Fill in your ethics & privacy discussion here


1

Lorenz, T. (9 Dec 2021) Birds Aren’t Real, or Are They? Inside a Gen Z Conspiracy Theory. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/technology/birds-arent-real-gen-z-misinformation.html

2

Also refs should be important to the background, not some randomly chosen vaguely related stuff. Include a web link if possible in refs as above.