The first column contains the city mentioned to subjects, and the second column con tains the guesses for the population of Milwaukee (in thou- sands, to the nearest thousand) f. Were the subjects in this study randomly assigned to groups? Explain. Were the subjects in this study randomly selected from a population? Explain. Is this an observational study or an experiment? Explain.

Also classify each as categorical or quantitative. Identify the explanatory variable and the response vari- able in this study. Sunstein.) The purpose in analyzing the data is to see if we find strong evidence of this phenomenon among students like the ones in this study a. (For more about this phenomenon, see the book Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Some of the students were randomly chosen to be told that the nearby city of Chicago, Ilinois has a population of about 3 million people, while the rest of the students were told that the nearby city of Green Bay, Wisconsin, has a population of about 100,000 Previous studies have shown that these numbers serve as a psychological anchor, so people told about Chicago tend to guess a higher population for Milwaukee than people told about Green Bay. Transcribed image text: The anchoring phenomenon 6.2.16 Anchoring is “the common human tendency to rely too heavily, or 'anchor, on one trait or piece of infor mation when making decisions.' (Source Wikipedia.) A group of students taking an introductory statistics course at a four-year university in California were asked to guess the population of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.