Zhao's Research Interest Is to Determine If Poverty Causes One

question 110

Multiple Choice

Zhao's research interest is to determine if poverty causes one to be more politically liberal. However, he cannot randomly assign people to conditions of poverty versus wealth because (aside from the practical difficulty) it would be unethical to do so. Zhao will have to ____.

• A)conduct a field experiment
• B)take a correlational approach
• C)do a meta-analysis
• D)develop a factorial design

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