If a research wanted to compare intelligence scores between people who have been convicted of crimes and people who have never been convicted of a crime, this would be an example of…
A) An experimental design
B) A correlational design
C) A quasi experimental design
D) A categorical design

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Whether someone has been convicted or a crime or not is not something that a researcher can manipulation, and therefore it would be a quasi experimental design where two groups are compared and participants cannot be randomly allocated to conditions.

If a Research Wanted to Compare Intelligence Scores Between People