Jordyn Williams
1. Adolescent behavior is significantly influenced by their parents and fellow peers when it
comes to the delinquency of their actions.
2. The likely causal variable would be the delinquency level and the activities of the
subject’s parents and peers.
3. The likely effect would be discovering that the actions and activities of parents and
peers do, in fact, influence adolescent delinquency or that the variables have no
correlation.
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