If a study was set up to see if psychology majors differed from biology majors in political attitudes, participants could not be randomly assigned to groups because they came to the study as psychology or biology majors. Such a research design would be
a. experimental.
b. ex post facto.
c. operational.
d. quasi-experimental.
d
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