Identify the Following as an Experiment or an Observational Study

question 57

Essay

Identify the following as an experiment or an observational study.
-A researcher wishes to survey a random sample of high school teachers within a certain school district. There
are 77 high schools in the school district. She lists the schools alphabetically and uses the calculator command
"randInt(1, 77, 5)" to pick five numbers between 1 and 77. She visits the five schools corresponding to those
numbers and interviews all teachers at each of the five schools.

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Definitions:

Buyer

An individual or entity that purchases goods or services for personal use, consumption, or investment.

Anticonformity

Behavior that goes against the norms of a group purposefully, different from mere nonconformity as it seeks to challenge or oppose those norms.

Independence

The state or quality of being self-reliant and free from reliance on external support or control.

Bandwagon Effect

A psychological phenomenon where people do something primarily because other people are doing it, regardless of their own beliefs.