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beccaep

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Qualitative research can be defined by which of the following?
 
  a) directly tests the quality of a cause and effect relationship
  b) examines human behavior in the contexts in which they occur
  c) typically leads to high-quality numeric data
  d) one of the oldest formalized types of research used in the social and behavioral sciences

Question 2

A small town decides to ban cell phone texting while driving.
 
  Before putting the law into effect, officials measure the amount of cell phone use among drivers by placing observers at a busy intersection and recording the percentage of drivers using phones. They do this over 6 consecutive one-week intervals, each week being the middle week of a month (i.e., six months of pretesting). Right after the law is passed, officials repeat the observational study for another six months. Which of the following is true about the design of this study?
   
 a. it is an interrupted time series design
   b. it is an example of a nonequivalent control group design
   c. without a control group, there is no way to evaluate trends with this design
   d. because there are multiple observations this would qualify as a regression discontinuity design



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phuda

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Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

A




beccaep

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Reply 2 on: Jul 13, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


robbielu01

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Great answer, keep it coming :)

 

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