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Dorothy is interested in understanding smoking in middle school students. Specifically, she believes that low self-esteem causes students to smoke.

1 How might Dorothy gather information to address her hypothesis?

2 What kind of research design should Dorothy use? What are the advantages and disadvantages of this design?

3 What are some of the challenges of measuring behaviors such as smoking and internal characteristics such as self-esteem?

4 How can her study be improved to overcome the weaknesses you have identified?