When you respond to a telephone survey or you complete a written questionnaire, with which research method are you participating?
A. correlational
B. experimental
C. descriptive
D. cross-sectional
Answer: C. descriptive
Explanation: Collecting the data from sources and explaining that available data is the main motto of descriptive research. It is just a description of the process. This type of research doesn't test the data scientifically.
In the given case, we are responding telephone survey and questionnaire. That is just a description of ourselves. That's why it considered as descriptive research.
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