Correlational Research Is Used So Often as a Method of Studying

question 63

Multiple Choice

Correlational research is used so often as a method of studying human sexuality because _______.

• A) researchers typically cannot control people's sexual behaviors as would be necessary in an experiment
• B) it almost always allows researchers to determine if one variable causes another variable
• C) it provides researchers with an easy way to test new theories of human sexuality
• D) it allows researchers to take a large number of unrelated variables and figure out how to connect them to each other

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