Use the Following to Answer the Questions Below

Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer the questions below:
The Admissions Office at a small university has developed a new 10-minute video about the university to send to prospective students. Before mass-producing the DVD, they would like to test whether it is more effective than the current video. Suppose that you have 12 high school student volunteers who have agreed to take part in an experiment. The explanatory variable to be studied is the type of video, with two levels OLD and NEW.
-A group of students were asked to count the number of scars on both of their hands. The number of scars on their dominant hand was compared to the number of scars on their "off" hand. Is this an observational study or a randomized experiment?

A) Observational study
B) Randomized experiment