You are interested in the number of chocolate chips on a cookie. To estimate this number, you consider two different experiments:

Question

A. Pick a cookie at random, all cookies being equally likely to be picked, and count the number of chocolate chips on that cookie.

B. Pick a chocolate chip at random, all chocolate chips being equally likely to be picked, and count the number of chocolate chips on the cookie to which the selected chocolate chip belongs.

Which method will tend to give higher results?

Answer 1

b