Question

A researcher wants to see if there is a relationship between a person's birth order and his or her leadership ability. The best method for answering this question would be __________.a. experimental.b. correlational.c. observational.d. archival analysis.

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is b. correlation

Explanation:

In Correlation, the connection between two or more events of things are checked. In a correlation study, a researcher find out the relationship between naturally occurring variables.  

So here a researcher wants to check out the relationship between two naturally occurring variables which is a person's birth order and it's leadership ability so it is an example of a correlation study.

Alfred Adler is the 20th century did this study and found that the person's birth order impacts the person's personality. So the right answer is b.