In the example above, an experiment might involve asking many people what their favorite colors are.
Following the first study, the second part involved asking staff at a psychiatric hospital to detect "fake" patients.
The new studies involved asking children which doll they preferred, a black one or a white one.
The third involves asking children actual questions about their attachment relationships.
Adopting this approach to the study of child abuse involves asking rather different questions from those usually asked by researchers.
Another utterly different approach to animal communication involves asking what the observed activities might be for.
Data may be obtained purely by observation but usually involve asking questions.
Nearly all the research at the time involved asking people to fill out surveys.
M&E should also involve asking young people's view of how much progress has been made and what the challenges are.
Part of that planning involved asking the 900 students of the local public school what they would like in the playground.