Determine whether the study is an experiment or an observational study, and then identify a major problem with the study.
A sociologist has created a brief survey to be given to 2000 adults randomly selected from the U.S. population. Here is her first question: Have you ever been the victim of a felony crime?
This is an
because the researcher
What is a major problem with the study?
OA. There is no blinding or replication, which has a high chance of leading to bias.
OB. The responses will be voluntary, which will lead to a high chance of bias.
OC. The sample includes only U.S. adults.
OD. There may be individuals that do not answer the question honestly.
the individuals.