Drag each label to the correct location on the table. Each label can be used more than once. For each given situation, determine if the method of randomization is either appropriate or not appropriate.
Appropriate
Not Appropriate
Situation
Randomization
1. A car company is performing a survey to find
out about people's driving habits in a certain
city. They randomize the survey by talking to
every 50th person who leaves a movie theater
within this certain city.
Not Appropriate
Not Appropriate
2. A university wants to test the health effects of
a certain sweetener. Prior to testing the
sweetener, they randomize the experiment by
flipping a fair coin that assigns each person to
the experimental or control group.
3. A laboratory wants to know how having
chicken pox as a child has affected people's
immune systems as adults. They randomize
the study by assigning subjects to groups
based on a random drawing.
Appropriate