A Social Research Methods Class Wants to Study Smoking

question 10

Multiple Choice

A social research methods class wants to study smoking.first the professor asks how many people in the class are smokers.Two people say yes.Then she asks how many people have smoked a cigarette in the past week,and ten people say yes.from this the class decides that,for the purposes of its survey,a smoker will be anyone who has had a cigarette in the past week and currently owns a pack of cigarettes.This is a(n) :

• A) operational definition.
• B) hypothesis.
• C) spurious correlation.
• D) ethical challenge.

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Definitions:

HR Managers

Professionals responsible for overseeing various functions within the human resources department, including recruiting, training, and benefits administration.

Corporate Citizens

Companies that are conscious of their social responsibility, actively participating in initiatives to improve the community and environment.

Human Relations Era

The human relations era supplanted scientific management as the dominant approach to management during the 1930s.

Hawthorne Studies

A series of productivity experiments conducted from 1924-1932, which found that worker productivity increased under varying levels of light due to the psychological stimulus of being studied.