Correlational research is a type of non-experimental research method, in which a researcher measures two variables, understands and assess the statistical relationship between them with no influence from any extraneous variable.
Our mind can do some brilliant things. For example, it can memorize the jingle of a pizza truck. Louder the jingle, closer is the pizza truck to us. Who taught us that? Nobody! We relied on our understanding and came to a conclusion. We just don’t stop there, do we? If there are multiple pizza trucks in the area and each one has a different jingle. We would be able to memorize it all and relate the jingle to its pizza truck.
This is precisely what correlational research is, establishing a relationship between two variables, “jingle” and “distance of the truck” in this particular example. Correlational research is looking for variables that seem to interact with each other so that when you see one variable changing, you have a fair idea how the other variable will change.
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