A manager at a science museum wants to identify the most popular exhibits, so once every hour for six weeks she has volunteers count the number of people standing in front of each exhibit. This is an example of

In social studies, especially those in which you want to analyze or investigate the behavior, in many cases recreating the situation to be studied in a laboratory or the interaction of the researcher with the subject under investigation may be impossible or alter the result leading to false conclusions In these cases, the researcher resorts to naturalistic observation, which consists of observing or studying the subject in their natural conditions, in their environment, thus avoiding a change in the behavior of the researched, either because of the artificial nature of the experiment or because of the presence of a stranger, the researcher, in the environment.

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In this case, the use of another method such as an interview or survey can result in a change of behavior or response by the interviewee, thus observing and recording the number of visitors without intervening with them is making a naturalistic observation