4) Wallets containing information about their owner are dropped in a railway station. Half the wallets indicate that the owner is fairly wealthy. The others indicate the opposite. The number of wallets returned is counted and the prediction is that fewer 'wealthy owner' wallets will be returned. The design here is a:
A) True experiment
B) Quasi-experiment
C) Natural experiment
D) Non-experiment

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

This is a quasi-experiment because it involves manipulation of an independent variable (perceived wealth of the wallet's owner) without random assignment of participants to conditions.

4) Wallets Containing Information About Their Owner Are Dropped in a Railway