A social research methods class wants to study smoking.first the professor asks how many people in the class are smokers.Two people say yes.Then she asks how many people have smoked a cigarette in the past week,and ten people say yes.from this the class decides that,for the purposes of its survey,a smoker will be anyone who has had a cigarette in the past week and currently owns a pack of cigarettes.This is a(n):

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The definition provided by the class for a smoker is an operational definition, which defines how the variable (smoker) will be measured and observed in the study.

A Social Research Methods Class Wants to Study Smoking