Professor Lars Lonsdale identified several characteristics that made up a hypothetical university student.Next,he examined many university students and compared them to his model.He discovered that students at private universities fit the model better than students at public universities.He also learned that women fit the model better than men and that the model fits students from small towns better than those from large cities,suburbs,or rural areas.What type of analytical technique was Professor Lonsdale using?
A) Successive approximation
B) Analogy
C) Narrative analysis
D) Ideal type analysis
E) Illustrative method

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Professor Lonsdale was using ideal type analysis to compare his model of a hypothetical university student to real university students and to identify patterns and variations in those students based on different characteristics such as attending a private or public university, gender, and geographical background.

Professor Lars Lonsdale Identified Several Characteristics That Made Up a Hypothetical