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Which of the following statements is most true about the relative size of measures of variability?
 
  a. The standard deviation is usually larger than the variance.
  b. The variance is usually larger than the standard deviation.
  c. The variance and the standard deviation are equal in size.
  d. The standard deviation is usually larger than the range.

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A type of study striving to understand the relationship between mental, behavioral, and material realities that make up human consumption and disposal, including examination of diet and nutrition, recycling, waste disposal techniques, food waste,
 
  and food recovery is called _________________.
  A) science of garbology
  B) official documentary records
  C) crime analysis
  D) actuarial records

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What are the steps involved in creation of grounded theory during case study research?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

(b) The variance is usually larger than the standard deviation.

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First the researcher starts with a research idea, and forms a plan including whether to use single- or multiple-case approach. Then the researcher identifies the location of the study, determines how to obtain access, and the data-collection strategies to use. The researcher collects data, and constantly compares and considers the data being unearthed. The researcher compares his/her own findings of data collected with assessments of other researchers and literature on the topic. The researcher reflects on the information collected, and the problem originally addressed to determine what the findings mean, and what their implications may be. Then the researcher is ready to offer a theoretical explanation for whatever problems or issues were being explored, described, or explained in the study.