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A researcher for a national restaurant chain is designing an experiment to determine the impact of the waiting time between being seated and first being approached by a waitperson on the likelihood to order dessert after the rest of the meal. She has heard that a survey asking people about their feelings will be less predictive than a causal design using a marketing experiment, so she definitely wants to design and use an experiment. Outline one possible design you would suggest for the test, including the (1) the basic experimental design, (2) how you would choose the sample, (3) what outcome(s) you would measure, and (4) expected analytics.



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1. The basic experimental design would be to randomly assign customers to either a control group or a treatment group. Customers in the control group would experience the normal wait time between being seated and first being approached by a waitperso
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