Briefly explain the view of the social scientific approach and the types of research methods often used in data collection by social scientists.

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The social scientific approach views the world as objective, causal, and predictable. Researchers work to describe communication activity and to discover connections between phenomena or causal patterns. This approach tends to employ laboratory experiments and questionnaires/surveys and works to find precise measurements of behavior, with the emphasis on statistical numerical analysis of the data collected.