Question

Simister and cooper decided to find out if there is a relationship between crime and the weather. they obtained data on temperatures and criminal activity in los angeles over a four-year period. when they graphed air temperature and the frequency of aggravated assaults, they found that assaults and temperatures rise and fall more or less in parallel. simister and cooper conducted a(n) __________ study.

Answer 1

Answer: Longitudinal study.

A longitudinal study is one that involves repeated observations of the same variables over a period of time (in the example, it was four years). The opposite type of study is a cross-sectional study (one that looks at the variables at a given moment).