Question: The experimenters (a man and a woman) staged 140 "shoplifting" incidents in a grocery store. In each case, the "shoplifter" (one experimenter) picked up a carton of cigarettes in full view of a customer and then walked out. Half the time the experimenter was well dressed and half the time sloppily dressed. Half the incidents involved a male shoplifter and half involved a female. For each incident, the experimenters (with the cooperation of the checkout person) simply noted whether the shoplifter was reported or not.