This question is missing the options. I've found the complete question online. It is the following:
Your text describes a study in which professors receive e-mails, supposedly from students, asking for mentoring. All details about the e-mails are identical except whether they appear to come from males or females and from whites or nonwhites. This is _______ research, and found _______.
A) experimental; no evidence of bias
B) experimental; bias against women and minorities
C) correlational; no evidence of bias
D) correlational; bias against women and minorities
Answer:
This is correlational research, and found bias against women and minorities. (letter D)
Step-by-step explanation:
A type of nonexperimental research, correlational research is a design in which the statistical relationship between two variables is assessed. However, the researcher does not try or makes little effort to control extraneous variables. The passage we are analyzing here is an example of correlational research, and it takes gender and race into consideration.