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A soft drink manufacturer has been supplying its products in bottles to grocery stores and in cans to small convenience stores. The company is analyzing sales of this product to determine which type of packaging is preferred by customers. Is this study observational or experimental? Explain.

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Discuss one advantage and one disadvantage of a self-administered survey as a method of data collection.


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Reply #1 on: Aug 1, 2018
Answer to Question 1

The study is observational. The statistics practitioner did not randomly assign stores to selling bottles or cans. Type of store and type of packaging cannot be separated here.

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Advantages: It is an inexpensive method of conducting a survey, since it is usually mailed to a sample of people, and is therefore attractive when the number of people to be surveyed is large.

Disadvantages: Self-administered surveys usually have low response rates and may have a relatively high number of incorrect responses due to respondents misunderstanding some questions.


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