Many fundraisers ask for donations using email and text messages. A paper describes an experiment to investigate whether the pro
portion of people who make a donation when asked for a donation by email is different from the proportion of people who make a donation when asked for a donation in a text message. In this experiment, 1.8% of those who received and opened an email request for a donation and 7.9% of those who received a text message asking for a donation actually made a donation. Assume that the people who received these requests were randomly assigned to one of the two groups (email or text message) and suppose that the given percentages are based on sample sizes of 2,000 (the actual sample sizes in the experiment were much larger). (Let p1 be the proportion who make a donation after receiving an email, and p2 be the proportion who make a donation after receiving a text message.) The study described is an experiment with two treatments. What are the two treatments?
a. fundraisers
b. donations using text message
c. charitable giving
d. donations using email
e. deadlines
From the question, it is clear that the people who received these requests were assigned to two groups and these 2 were assigned treatments of if they make donations after either receiving email or text messages after which their respective proportions p1 and p2 are determined.
