A researcher wants to understand why people are willing to handle snakes as a part of their church activities in several rural churches in Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia. How would you study this...

A researcher wants to understand why people are willing to handle snakes as a part of their church activities in several rural churches in Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia.

How would you study this phenomenon? (HINT: Apply ideas and concepts from qualitative and or mixed methods research.)

The goal of inferential statistics is to

a.            Summarize the research data

b.            Go beyond the immediate set of data

c.             Summarize key numerical characteristics of the data set

d.            Calculate the averages of the experimental and control groups.