Dr. Decesco is conducting research where she unobtrusively sits in various shopping malls and records the number of people in various groups as they go about their shopping activities

Her goal is to tally males and females into different groups as she records their behavior. What type of research strategy is most likely being used here?

a. Quasi-experimental
b. Correlational
c. Descriptive
d. Experimental


c

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