The research question for this project - How an average American looks in terms of the variables you have chosen - is determined by the data set and the quantitative methods knowledge level of the class for today. The GSS 2018 data set is a representative data of the U.S. population. When you analyze it and find mean, median or mode for the variables from the data set, you get characteristics of an average American. The task (the research question), the recommended data set, the expected quantitative methods are rigidly connected to each other. Changing one of them leads to the irresolvable contradiction. For instance, if instead of describing an average American via chosen variable you decide to find the cause-effect relations between these variables, you have to know that it cannot be done without creating the correlation matrix and using ANOVA, multiple or logistic regression methods that we have not studied in this class. That is why changing the original research question is not recommended