You Are About to Start a Research Project with the Goal

question 23

Multiple Choice

You are about to start a research project with the goal of understanding how one variable causes another variable; poverty causes HIV infection, for example. A starting point would be to demonstrate that the two variables are related. You are only hypothesising that when poverty is high, HIV infection rates are also high. You could start your project with a ________ study of these two variables.

• A) coincidental
• B) correlational
• C) experimental
• D) observational

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