WHAT IS RESEARCH DESIGN? - New York University

Indeed a great deal of scientific investigation involves specifying the conditions under which particular laws operate. Thus, we might say that at sea level heating pure water to 100 ¾C will always cause water to boil. Alternatively, the law might be stated in the form of ‘other things being equal’ then X will always produce Y. A deterministic version of the relationship between race and income level would say that … ................
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