If there are multiple pizza trucks in the area and each one has a different jingle, we would memorize it all and relate the jingle to its pizza truck. This is what correlational research precisely is, establishing a relationship between two variables, “jingle” and “distance of the truck” in this particular example.
Likewise, people ask, what is a quantitative correlational study?
A correlational research design investigates relationships between two variables (or more) without the researcher controlling or manipulating any of them. It’s a non-experimental type of quantitative research.
In respect to this, what is correlation in research paper? A correlation is a simple statistic that explains whether there’s a relationship or association between any two variables. … In a correlational study, researchers pick two variables they think might be associated with each other.