Wondering whether class attendance is related to course grade, a professor begins to gather both kinds of data for his classes. Investigating the relationship between attendance and grades may be described as
a. hypothesis testing.
b. synthesis of two variables.
c. theory application.
d. a nonscientific investigation.
A
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