Lorenzo's hypothesis suggests that the more religious a teenager is, the less likely he/she is to have sexual intercourse before marriage. Lorenzo measures religiosity by the number of times a week a person prays and he measures sexual experience by the number of sexual partners that a person has had. By turning the abstract concepts into something measureable, Lorenzo is involved in:

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Operationalizing involves defining abstract concepts in a way that they can be measured or quantified, which is exactly what Lorenzo is doing by defining religiosity in terms of prayer frequency and sexual experience in terms of the number of sexual partners.

Lorenzo's Hypothesis Suggests That the More Religious a Teenager Is