Explanatory research design offers the following advantages:
1. Examination of cause-and-effect relationships: Explanatory research design enables researchers to investigate the relationships between variables and cause-and-effect relationships.
2. Justification of actions: With the help of explanatory research, researchers can justify their actions by providing empirical evidence for their decisions.
3. Identification of variables: Explanatory research helps in identifying variables that are responsible for the occurrence of a particular phenomenon, which in turn helps in developing strategies for controlling the variable.
4. Improved decision making: By using explanatory research design, decision-making can be improved because it provides in-depth insights into the data collected.
5. Generalization: Explanatory research helps in generalizing the results to other populations, which enables researchers to make recommendations that can be applied to a wider audience.
6. Replication: Explanatory research design can be replicated, making the findings more reliable and accurate.
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