An Observer of Street Corner Groups Finds That More Acts

question 2

Multiple Choice

An observer of street corner groups finds that more acts of vandalism are committed by same-sex groups than by mixed-sex groups. She speculates that the propensity to commit publicly deviant acts is a product of competition for recognition among peers of equal status. This is an example of

• A) prediction without explanation.
• B) deductive reasoning.
• C) inductive reasoning.
• D) hypothesis testing.

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