Which of the Following Is an Example of Correlational Research

question 116

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of correlational research?

• A) A historian conducts an extensive study of the factors that led to the American defeat at Pearl Harbor in 1941.
• B) 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.
• C) A researcher interviews taxpayers to find out how strongly they would support a proposal for a "flat" tax.
• D) A researcher randomly divides her participants into two groups, giving one group a powerful new medicine while the other group gets a placebo.

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