One SIP idea using publicly-available data could be to research what affects go into a NBA career compared to a WNBA career. The affects i'm thinking of include: Marriages, salary, pregnancies, injuries, etc. I would try to gather information via the NBA and WNBA by website or by phone. The one big hypothesis i would like to test would be that the WNBA players have significantly shorter careers than WNBA players because of the many factors mentioned above.

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Another SIP idea using original collected data would be to do an internship with a big company and survey their employees asking about their happiness and other factors within the company itself. I would test for the hypothesis that an employees happiness is based upon certain factors that would be collected from the survey.