Professor Yarnofsky wonders whether recent acts of airline terrorism have made the public more fearful of airline flight. He secures records of the amount of flight insurance that people have purchased via machines at the airport, and compares the records of insurance purchases before the last hijacking to purchases after the last hijacking. Professor Yarnofsky has employed a(n) __________ research method.

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The method used by Professor Yarnofsky is archival, as he is analyzing existing records of flight insurance purchases rather than conducting direct observation or experimentation.

Professor Yarnofsky Wonders Whether Recent Acts of Airline Terrorism Have