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Why aren't descriptive investigations repeatable?

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Descriptive investigations are not repeatable because they are based only on observations made at a single point in time. The results may vary at a different time. In addition, descriptive investigations do not contain variables that may indicate cause-and-effect relationships.

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I would say that descriptive investigations aren't repeatable because it means that you are only describing something - you ask certain question about something, but do not form a hypothesis at that point yet. So it would be a waste of time to simply ask the same questions over and over again with no hypothesis to prove, which is why these types of investigations cannot be repeated.
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