Paper 1 · Research Aptitude
When a researcher starts with the dependent variable and moves backwards to its causes, it is called
APredictive research
BRetrospective research ✓ Correct
CExploratory research
DDescriptive research
Correct answer: (B) Retrospective research — Starting from the dependent variable and moving backwards to its causes is retrospective research, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★Starting from the dependent variable and moving backwards to its causes is retrospective research, so that is the answer.
★Retrospective research begins after the effect has appeared.
★So it looks back from the effect, the dependent variable, to search for its earlier causes.
★Predictive research moves the other way, forecasting future outcomes from present causes.
★Exploratory research opens up a little-known area rather than tracing causes backward.
★Descriptive research only pictures what exists, so working backward from the effect is retrospective research.
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