Question 6.6

6.6 Reducing smoking. The Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation asked whether a community-wide advertising campaign would reduce smoking. The researchers located 11 pairs of communities, with each pair similar in location, size, economic status, and so on. One community in each pair was chosen at random to participate in the advertising campaign and the other was not. This is

  1. (a) an observational study.

  2. (b) a matched pairs experiment.

  3. (c) a completely randomized experiment.

  4. (d) a randomized block design.