What are (broadly speaking) the five stages of the research process?

What is the fundamental difference between experimental and correlational research?

What is the level of measurement of the following variables? The number of downloads of different bands' songs on iTunesThe names of the bands that were downloadedTheir positions in the download chartThe money earned by the bands from the downloadsThe weight of drugs bought by the bands with their royaltiesThe type of drugs bought by the bands with their royaltiesThe phone numbers that the bands obtained because of their fameThe gender of the people giving the bands their phone numbersThe instruments played by the band membersThe time they had spent learning to play their instruments

In 2011 I got married and we went to Disney World in Florida for our honeymoon. We bought some bride and groom Mickey Mouse hats and wore them around the parks. The staff at Disney are really nice and, upon seeing our hats, would say 'Congratulations' to us. We counted how many times people said congratulations over 7 days of the honeymoon: 5, 13, 7, 14, 11, 9, 17. Calculate the mean, median, sum of squares, variance, and standard deviation of these data