RESEARCH PROJECTTo find an answer to this research question and to demonstrate the validity of the hypotheses, a quantitative approach will be adopted. Since not many studies have been completed in this area of ​​research, I will use an observational study involving uncontrolled mean comparisons to explain the relationship between the different independent variables and the dependent variable of the unemployment rate. I'm just trying to see if there's a relationship right now. Further research in the future may involve using controlled mean comparisons to see whether an external variable that can be controlled is the actual cause of a relationship with the unemployment rate. I will just test one relationship to see if my hypotheses are valid, after which I may move on to this further research. A quantitative approach works best because I am dealing with measurable variables to see if there is actually a relationship between the dependent and independent variable or if it is caused by something else. A mean comparative analysis is the best tool for my research design because these types of comparisons “condense relationships into a single, easy-to-interpret measure of central tendency.” An average comparison is also the correct tool to use because I am dealing with independent variables at the ordinal level and a dependent unemployment variable at the interval level. The independent variables I will use in my research will be: the amount of acres that can be used for oil extraction, standardized test scores for different countries in math, reading and science, the dollar amount of tax breaks for multinational corporations and the amount of species at risk of extinction in a given area. VARIABLES Each of these proposals var...... half of the document ......national student assessment. "PISA Country Profiles". OECD Program for International Student Assessment. http://www.oecd.org/home/0,3675,en_2649_201185_1_1_1_1_1,00.html (accessed 15 November 2011). Political factors. “What are the political factors of the world?” http://politicalfactors.com/ (accessed 14 November 2011). Pollock, Philip H. The Essentials of Political Analysis, 3rd ed. Washington DC: CQ Press, 2009, 79.Sachs, Jeffrey. “Why America must revive its middle class.” Time magazine 178, no. 14, 10 October 2011, 30-32. Spence, Michael. “The impact of globalization on income and employment”. Foreign Affairs 90, n. 4 (July/August 2011): 28-41. "The search for work". The Economist, 10 September 2011, 11.Tocqueville, Alexis de, Democracy in America: Harvey Mansfield and Delba Winthrop, trans., ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.