Which of the Following Is an Example of Survey Research

question 37

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of survey research?

• A) A researcher interviews taxpayers to find out how strongly they would support a proposal for a "flat" tax.
• B) A researcher randomly divides her participants into two groups, giving one group a powerful new medicine while the other group gets a placebo.
• C) A historian conducts an extensive study of the factors that led to the American defeat at Pearl Harbor in 1941.
• D) A researcher tracks smokers and nonsmokers to see how many of them get lung cancer and if there are significant differences in lung cancer rates between the two groups.

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Definitions:

Sexual Reproduction

A biological mechanism that generates a new life form through the merging of genetic information from two distinct organisms.

Telophase II

The final stage of meiosis II where chromosomes decondense, nuclear envelopes form around the daughter nuclei, and cytokinesis occurs, resulting in four haploid daughter cells.

Homologous Chromosomes

Chromosome pairs in diploid beings that are alike in form, dimension, and genetic composition, being inherited from both the mother and the father.

Sister Chromatids

Identical copies of a chromosome, connected by a centromere, that are formed by DNA replication and separated during cell division.