Write a 3-4 page research proposal that could draw from existing survey data. In your memo be precise as to the questions you propose to answer, hypotheses you wish to test, and the suitability of the data for your proposed study. Make sure to include a Formalized Hypothesis and Methodology. You could right about anything that can be tested for a hypothesis. Formalized hypothesis : If (Dependent Variable) is related to (Independent variable), then is followed by the prediction of what will happen.