Which of the following would be an example of a standing committee in a state legislature? a. a senate committee created in response to the bp oil spill b. a senate committee that deals exclusively with education policy c. a house committee devoted to handling rules and procedures in house hearings d. a joint house and senate conference that handles legislative issues between the two houses

The social contact theory states that

What is douglass's purpose in the speech "the hypocrisy of american slavery, july 4, 1852" ? how does douglass reveal his purpose to the reader?

The authors of the paper "fudging the numbers: distributing chocolate influences student evaluations of an undergraduate course"† carried out a study to see if events unrelated to an undergraduate course could affect student evaluations. students enrolled in statistics courses taught by the same instructor participated in the study. all students attended the same lectures and one of six discussion sections that met once a week. at the end of the course, the researchers chose three of the discussion sections to be the "chocolate group." students in these three sections were offered chocolate prior to having them fill out course evaluations. students in the other three sections were not offered chocolate. the researchers concluded that "overall, students offered chocolate gave more positive evaluations than students not offered chocolate." indicate whether the study is an observational study or an experiment. give a brief explanation for your choice.