Which of the following is true about the correlational design?
A) Researchers gather information on individuals, generally in natural life circumstances, and make no effort to alter their experiences.
B) Unlike the experimental design, it permits inferences of cause and effect.
C) Researchers use an evenhanded procedure to assign people to two or more treatment conditions.
D) In an experiment, the events and behaviors of interest are divided into independent and dependent variables.

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The correlational design involves gathering information in natural life circumstances without altering experiences. It does not involve manipulation of variables or treatment conditions as in experiments, so options B and C are incorrect. Option D describes the division of variables in an experimental design, which is not applicable to correlational research.

Which of the Following Is True About the Correlational Design