A researcher wanted to know whether a restaurant server's religion affected the size of the tips received. For one month, a server working in a local restaurant waited on tables while prominently wearing a Christian cross on the odd-numbered days and the Star of David on the even-numbered days. This study is an example of a(n)

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This study is a field experiment because it was conducted in a real-life setting, the restaurant, and the independent variable (wearing a Christian cross or Star of David necklace) was manipulated by the researcher. It is not a correlational study because the researcher manipulated the independent variable, and it is not a laboratory experiment because it did not take place in a controlled laboratory environment. It is also not ethnographic research because the focus of the study was not on describing and understanding a particular culture or group of people.

A Researcher Wanted to Know Whether a Restaurant Server's Religion