Desean is conducting research to support his claim that the penalty for texting while driving in his home state of california should be more severe than a $20 fine for first-time offenders. he finds this text in a reliable source.(1) in the united states, the punishment for driving while texting varies greatly from state to state. (2) for instance, in alaska, there is a $1,000 fine for first-time offenders, while in california, the amount is $20, and in montana, it's not even illegal. (3) the bottom line is that texting while driving is extremely dangerous. (4) in fact, it makes the driver 23 times more likely to crash, and in 2010, eleven percent of drivers age 18–20 who crashed and lived admitted they were texting at the wheel.

According to the federal regulations, which of the following studies meets the definition of research with human subjects? a researcher conducts a comparison of the comments made in a publicly available blog and the blogger's comments on a similar topic in a weekly magazine. undergraduate students in a field methods class are assigned a research question and asked to interview another classmate, to be followed by a class discussion on interview techniques. a cognitive psychologist enrolls undergraduate students for a computer-based study about the effect of mood on problem-solving behaviors. a researcher sets up a meeting with the superintendent of a large and diverse public school system to get data about the ethnic composition of the school system and the number of students receiving free lunches.