An African American sociology student wants to test the hypothesis that Affirmative Action has helped alleviate racial discrimination on college campuses in the United States. The student does not have access to funds to pay interviewers or to use most other methods of gathering data so the student decides to use existing statistics as his source of data.

explain whether this type of research is based on interpretivist or positivist methodology. Use the definitions of the two types of methodology to explain why you answered the way you did.