Observational Research
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Observational research is non-experimental research. Other kinds of non-experimental studies are correlational study, survey, interview and the case study which might include data collecting through interviews. In these kinds of studies, it is not possible to determine a cause-effect relationship because the researcher does not control the variables. It might be possible to find correlations between observed variables, but this does not indicate the direction of a cause.
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