An Observer of Street Corner Groups Finds That More Acts

Multiple Choice

An observer of street corner groups finds that more acts of vandalism are committed by same-sex groups than by mixed-sex groups. She speculates that the propensity to commit publicly deviant acts is a product of competition for recognition among peers of equal status. This is an example of

A) prediction without explanation.
B) deductive reasoning.
C) inductive reasoning.
D) hypothesis testing.