In Grad school, just curious what did you do for you master thesis?

Question

I am in Geography and I am doing my topic on sex offenders location and demographics. I want to see if income, education, and race are factors in sex offenders committing acts.

I got the data I am cartographer GIS analyst from the census tracts by county and the sex offender national registry

Answer 1

Mine was regarding whether participating in college marching band has an impact on GPA (it doesn't) and whether the number of ensembles a student participates in has an effect (number of ensembles increase, GPA falls).

Yours sounds fascinating. Time consuming data collection, but fascinating. The location and race is in the registries, how will you collect the income/education data?

I'm thinking, if you're doing this study nationwide, the single location demographic (offenders per 1000 pop by county for example) might be a good six months of data analysis.

I helped someone do data analysis on this for one county of South Carolina based on some factors including race and age. We found that, related to population, race is significant. Age had an incredibly wide distribution from 13-78 in our sample but we did see a couple patterns at 18-21 and 28-31.

Answer 2

I am not in grad school now...but if I do go for a masters it would be in Religious Studies and I would probably do my thesis on how Mary Magdalene - her influence on the culture of the catholic church in the medieval period as portrayed by Jacobus De Voragine in his Saints Lives, versus who she really was according to the gnostic tradition in ancient christianity.

Something like that anyways. I have a theory about the Saints Lives books and how Jacobus came up with some of the outlandish life details of these important christian figures.

Answer 3

My M.A. is in history. My thesis traced the relationship between the local "millionaire's row" and the university. I explained how the university ended up in that neighborhood and how the community grew and changed.

Answer 4

M.B.A.

Comparison and Contrast of American Economy , Soviet Centrally Planned Economy and the Japanese Economy