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Source materials for the following questions will be found in Adventures in Criminal Justice ResearchDowdall, Babbie, and Halley, Chapters 1 and 2, pp. xiii - 17.

Try to answer in 25 words or so. Make each answer integral, so that I can read it without reference to the exercise or the question itself.

1. On p. xvi, you are told to "point your browser" to the Web site to accompany the Dowdall, Babbie, and Halley book. What does "point your browser" mean?

2. What is a hypothesis? (DBH, p.12 and top of p.13).

3. Explain the difference between basic and applied research.

4. What is theory, and how does it relate to statistics? (DBH, p. 10)

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