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Nicole, an athletic trainer, believes that if she has evidence that her exercise program works, she can recruit more clients. She is planning to conduct a study to determine if working out for one hour per day with her fitness program causes a person to lose weight. She will track the participants' progress over a twelve-week period. Nicole mandates that her clients at the gym participate in her study, and she asks them to each find one friend who is not a member of the gym to also participate. Each of the participants weighs in at the start and again after the twelve-week period has ended. At the conclusion of the study, she will compare the results of both groups. Unfortunately, because she has not had any formal training in research methodology, she is not certain how to label the different components in her study or identify any potential flaws. Help Nicole with the following components of this study. What is the type of research methodology Nicole should use if she wants to determine if exercising for one hour per day causes a person to lose weight? Explain why this method would be preferred to others.

          Nicole, an athletic trainer, believes that if she has evidence that her exercise program works, she can recruit more clients. She is planning to conduct a study to determine if working out for one hour per day with her fitness program causes a person to lose weight. She will track the participants' progress over a twelve-week period. Nicole mandates that her clients at the gym participate in her study, and she asks them to each find one friend who is not a member of the gym to also participate. Each of the participants weighs in at the start and again after the twelve-week period has ended. At the conclusion of the study, she will compare the results of both groups. Unfortunately, because she has not had any formal training in research methodology, she is not certain how to label the different components in her study or identify any potential flaws. Help Nicole with the following components of this study.

What is the type of research methodology Nicole should use if she wants to determine if exercising for one hour per day causes a person to lose weight? Explain why this method would be preferred to others.

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