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Garcia-Montoya, Laura, Ana Arjona, and Matthew Lacombe. "Violence and Voting in the United States: How School Shootings Affect Elections." American Political Science Review (2021): 1-20.This chapter describes three general types of data/data collection often used by political scientists: (1) Interview data, (2) Document Analysis and (3) Firsthand observation. For each of the examples of published research described below (which we have reviewed in this class), determine which of the three data types is utilized in the study and why this is the case based on the specific data collected by the authors.