[12 total points]First, discuss why a classical experimental design is impractical to test the hypothesis below.

"Individuals who were physically abused as children are more likely to engage in criminal activity as an adult than individuals who were not abused as children."

Second, design a quasi-experimental design to test the hypothesis above.Be sure to include all the major design elements specific to the hypothesis (e.g., don't just say you are going to administer a pre/posttest; also explain who will receive the pre/posttest and what it will involve); also identify whatyour independent and dependent variables are and explain how you will measure each. BE SPECIFIC!! Label pre-test and posttest and what is matching between the experimental group and control group?

Third, explain if your design can establish causation and state specifically what you will need to find to support your hypothesis (i.e., identify whether the design meets each of the causation criteria; and whether you can infer causation or correlation).

First, the classical design is impractical because it brings harm to participants and subjects them to physical abuse during childhood.

Second: IV: Physical abuse during childhood. DV: Engagement in criminal activity as an adult

Collect information from people who have experienced physical abuse during childhood, which is our experimental group pretest. Survey the people who are a part of the abused group and look at their police records. It is the same with the control group pretest but surveys the people who did not experience abuse during childhood and look at their police records as well.