A researcher decides to measure happiness by the number of times a person smiles each hour. What process has she accomplished?

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Operationalization is the process of strictly defining variables into measurable factors. The researcher has operationalized the concept of happiness by defining it in terms of the observable and measurable variable of "number of times a person smiles each hour."

A Researcher Decides to Measure Happiness by the Number of Times