Mabel did a study on regional differences in Christmas gift-giving and, after observing the empirical relationship, she developed an hypothesis to explain the relationship. Mabel was engaging in
a. ex post facto hypothesizing.
b. elaboration.
c. distorter variable construction.
d. sample reconstruction.
e. deductive reasoning
A
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