Employees of a humanitarian organization are concerned about the practice of separating migrant children from their parents when families try to cross the U.S. border illegally. They want to know how they can use their organization’s resources to decrease the number of children separated from their families. One group thinks that investing its resources in as many social media campaigns as possible will be more effective at reducing the numbers, while another group thinks that focusing on staging as many protest events as possible will work better.

a. Turn the two proposed strategies into two separate social science research questions. Be sure to pose each as a question.

b. Which variables are the independent variables, and which are the dependent variables for each question?

c. What level of measurement is each of the variables from each research question?