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A researcher was interested in the effects of staring. She hypothesized that people become uncomfortable when someone stares at them and that they will try to escape the situation as quickly as possible. To test this idea she bought a stopwatch and stood at a randomly selected street corner in Santa Barbara, California. She wanted to see if cars that are stopped at a red light would speed away faster when the light turned green if the driver had been stared at while waiting for the light than if he or she had not been stared at. To get a reliable baseline for the average speed of crossing an intersection, she recorded the average number of seconds it took 250 cars (each of which was the first car at the red light) to cross the intersection after the light turned green. For the next 250 cars (again, each of which was first at the light), she stared directly at the driver, without wavering. She discovered that drivers who had been stared at crossed the intersection significantly faster than did drivers who had not been stared at. She concluded that staring causes people to drive away faster than they would normally.

Respond to the research ideas and choose a topic that is dear to you and provide the best way to test it.

In your answer, please follow all the steps of the scientific method as displayed in the text. a perfect answer will include the: hypothesis, research design, sample, variables, methods, analyses, and results.