The article "The Most Powerful Manipulative Messages Are Hiding in Plain Sight" reported the results of an interesting experiment on priming?the effect of subliminal messages on how we behave.?In the experiment, subjects completed a language test in which they were asked to construct a sentence using each word in a list of words. One group of subjects received a list of words related to politeness, and a second group was given a list of words related to rudeness. Subjects were told to complete the language test and then come into the hall and find the researcher so that he could explain the next part of the test.

When each subject came into the hall, he or she found the researcher engaged in conversation. The researcher wanted to see whether the subject would interrupt the conversation. The researcher found that 63% of those primed with words related to rudeness interrupted the conversation, whereas only 17% of those primed with words related to politeness interrupted.

If we assume that the researcher randomly assigned the subjects to the two groups, then this study is an experiment that compares two treatments (primed with words related to rudeness and primed with words related to politeness). The response variable,politeness, has the valuesinterrupted conversationanddid not interrupt conversation. The experiment uses replication (many subjects in each treatment group) and random assignment to control for extraneous variables that might affect the response.

Construct a diagram to represent the subliminal messages experiment described above.

Primed Primed with words Measure with words Measure related to rudeness related to politeness politeness Compare politeness Compare rudeness Subjects politeness for the two Subjects for the two treatments Primed treatments Primed with words Measure with words Measure related to rudeness related to rudeness rudeness C rudeness OC i Primed Primed with words Measure with words Measure related to rudeness related to politeness politeness Compare politeness Compare rudeness politeness Subjects for the two Subjects for the two treatments treatments Primed Primed with words Measure with words Measure related to politeness related to politeness rudeness rudeness C OC