A peace psychologist collects transcripts of 30 speeches delivered by a national leader in the six months before a major war.She is interested in testing the hypothesis that the leader's speeches promoted aggression in the lead up to the war, a hypothesis that the leader strongly denied in a major television interview after retiring from politics.Which of the following statements is true?
A)Statistics could not be used to analyse the results of this research.
B)If the leader only gave 30 speeches in the six month period before the war then the sampling domain could be said to be too narrow.
C)Grounded theory could be useful here if it was a ground war.
D)Both (a)and (b).
E)None of the above.

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Statistics can be used to analyze the content of the speeches for aggressive themes, and the sampling domain (30 speeches) is not inherently too narrow for such an analysis. Grounded theory is a research method that doesn't depend on the type of war (ground war or otherwise) but on the development of theory through data collection and analysis.

A Peace Psychologist Collects Transcripts of 30 Speeches Delivered by a National