You Are Conducting a Study of How Effective a Midnight

question 9

Multiple Choice

You are conducting a study of how effective a midnight basketball program is on reducing inner city juvenile crime. You measure the number of crimes reported to the police before and after the program is instituted, and you compare your findings to the crime rates in another city of similar size that does not have such a program. What is the experimental stimulus of your research?

• A)The crime rate in the city without the basketball program
• B)The crime rate in the city with the midnight basketball program
• C)The number of kids who take part in the program
• D)The midnight basketball program
• E)The crime rate after the program was instituted

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