Question

Elle Woods is interested in the success rates of licensed lawyers versus law school interns. She randomly selects ten licensed lawyers from each of three firms in town and ten Harvard law interns from each year (1st,2nd,3rd years) Each person is randomly assigned to a case and the outcome of the case (win or lose) is recorded. The clients are not told whether a licensed lawyer or a law school intern is representing them.

A) Is this an observation study or an experiment?

B) Which sampling technique did Ellie use?

C) What are the explanatory and response variables?

D) Was blinding used in this study? If so how?

Answer 1