Jordan Is a Developmental Psychologist Who Studies Bullying and Aggression

Multiple Choice

Jordan is a developmental psychologist who studies bullying and aggression in elementary school students. Her days often consist of spending time in the schoolyard with the children and making careful notes of their interactions. She pays particular attention to incidents of bullying in the schoolyard and is trying to find personality characteristics that are associated with bullying. In her most recent study, she found that being a bully is negatively correlated with academic performance at the 0.05 level of significance.
-Which of the following is an advantage to Jordan's study

A) She can accumulate deep knowledge about each child, which will allow her to assess cause-and-effect relationships.
B) It is relatively easy to collect systematic and consistent observations and translate it to numerical data.
C) It can be a good starting point when little is known about a certain phenomenon.
D) There is relatively small chance of having an experimenter or sampling bias.