Professor Kent is very interested in investigating whether the parenting styles of single fathers and single mothers differ with respect to modeling of sex roles for children. Professor Kent has recently become a single father of two young children. Is this a researchable and feasible question?
a. This is not researchable because Professor Kent is not likely to be value-free.
b. This is a researchable question because it is answerable through research and feasible if Kent can gain access to the population and find time and money to support the study.
c. This is not a researchable question because it is not possible to design a way to study this in the real world and it is not feasible because it is unlikely that parents would let researchers have access to this data.
d. This is a researchable question because many people have already investigated this topic and it is feasible because single parents are usually eager to participate in research.
e. This is a researchable question because a sampling frame does exist of single parent mothers and fathers in the United States.
b
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