A social research methods class wants to study smoking. First, the professor asks how many people in the class are smokers. Two
people indicate that they are. Then she asks how many people have smoked a cigarette in the past week and ten people indicate that they had. From this, the class decides, for the purposes of the survey, a smoker will be anyone who has smoked a cigarette in the past week and currently owns a pack of cigarettes. This is a(n) __________
Explanation:An operational definition refers to what a researcher uses on order to measure out that specific variable , that they are interested in measuring. This is crucial in order to make a person be well aware of what the researcher is speaking about when they make certain references.
Answer: Climate refers to the sum total ofweather conditions and variations over a large area for a long period of time(more than thirty years).Oct 19, 2020