Keshia Is Doing Research on the Effect of Birth Order

question 35

Multiple Choice

Keshia is doing research on the effect of birth order on personality. Rather than collecting data on a new set of subjects, she is analysing hundreds of studies that have already been done on this topic and is going to attempt to come up with an overall estimate of what all these other studies have found. What sort of study is Keshia doing?

• A)experiment
• B)meta-analysis
• C)correlational
• D)longitudinal

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