Dr.Robbins wants to know if there are different opinions regarding the value of public school education between Native Americans who have at least one relative who attended Indian Boarding School and Native Americans who have no family experience with Indian Boarding School.Dr.Robbins contacts 35 Native American participants in each group.He wants each group to include younger as well as older adults,and a mix of male and female participants.He asks each person to complete a survey about their attitudes toward public education.The design of this study is:
A)pre-experimental
B)factorial
C)true experimental
D)ex post facto

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The study is ex post facto because it examines the attitudes of participants based on an existing condition or characteristic (having a relative who attended Indian Boarding School vs. not having that family experience) that was not manipulated by the researcher.

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