Question

Team B randomly put participants into two group. One group is told to eat 4 bowls of oatmeal per week . The other team is told to not eat any oatmeal. At the beginning and end of the month they measure each participants blood cholesterol level. Is team B conducting an experiment or an observation study ? Why

Answer 1

Answer: This is an observation study because there is not more that one independent variable present.

Explanation:

If the question said one group is told to eat 1 bowl, 2 bowls, so on, it would be more of an experiment.