If You Want to Investigate How a Small Number of 10-Year-Olds

question 26

Multiple Choice

If you want to investigate how a small number of 10-year-olds think and feel about divorce and you want to report the results in the children's own words, which of the following research approaches would you most likely use?

• A) cross-sectional
• B) experimental
• C) qualitative
• D) longitudinal

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Definitions:

σ

Symbol representing the standard deviation of a population in statistics.

Population Mean

The average of a set of values from the entire population, representing the central tendency of the total data set.

Confidence Intervals

Intervals that are calculated from the observed data and provide a range that likely includes the true parameter of the population, expressed at a certain confidence level.

Sample Increases

The process or act of enlarging the sample size in statistical experiments, aiming to make findings more reliable by reducing sampling error.