Gentile, Lynch, Linder, and Walsh (2004) surveyed over 600 8 th- and 9th-grade students asking about their gaming habits and oth
er behaviors. Their results showed that adolescents who experienced more video game violence were also more hostile and had more frequent arguments with teachers. Is this an experimental or a nonexperimental study? Explain your answer.
We have a survey being conducted because the researchers are asking the students the questions. It's not an experiment because the students aren't being broken up into two groups (control group vs treatment group) to see the difference between the two if any.
