Question

A personnel director at a large company studied the eating habits of employees by watching the movements of a selected group of employees at lunchtime. The purpose of the study was to determine the proportion of employees who buy lunch in the cafeteria, bring their own lunches, or go out to lunch. The study could best be categorized as:

Answer 1

Observational study

Explanation:

A type of study which does not involve giving the participants or subjects any sort of treatment or undergoing any test. The participants are simply observed or studied over a cwetina period of time on the basis of what the researcher intends to measure before coming up with a conclusion. In the scenario above, employees eating habits is studied without having to undergo any sort of treatment or test, they are only studied in terms of what they eat and other measures of interest.