A researcher is curious to see if the amount of time spent on social media influences how often friends meet in person to socialize.  After their sample is selected the researcher asks the subjects on average how much time they spend on social media each day and then asks their subjects to keep track of how many times they meet in person with their friends to socialize and report back at the end of the month.  What type of study design is this?

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A researcher is curious to see if the amount of time spent on social media influences how often friends meet in person to socialize. 

After their sample is selected the researcher asks the subjects on average how much time they spend on social media each day and then asks their subjects to keep track of how many times they meet in person with their friends to socialize and report back at the end of the month.  What type of study design is this?

The research obtains 100 participates who met with their friends in person at least 15 times in the last month to socialize and 100 participates who met with their friends in persons less than 15 times in the last month to socialize.  Then the researcher asks the participants on average how many hours per day did they spend on social media during the month before.  What type of study design is this?

Options for both questions: Cohort, case-control, cross-sectional, clinical trial

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