... useful to a researcher who wants to describe the naturally occurring similarities in a large number of individuals or groups. An example of correlational research could be studying the aging of elderly people. The older people become the more wrinkles they get. There maybe exceptions, that as some people age they do not get ageing wrinkles. To prove this theory correct you can graph the two variables. The graph would increase because the two variables are associated. Open Mind defines experimental research as a strategy in which a researcher deliberately manipulates certain events and measures the effects of those manipulations on other events (48,2001). Experiments are the best way to identify cause unlike correlational research. In an experiment, you must have an independent variable, which is what the researcher wants to examine. A dependent variable, which is what is being observed. There also has to be one or more ...

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