To test whether people in bars drink more when they are in groups than when they are alone, researchers visited all the pubs in a city. they ordered beers and recorded observations on napkins and pieces of newspaper. why did they keep their identities in disguise?

To test whether people in bars drink more when they are in groups than when they are alone, researchers visited all the pubs in a city. They ordered beers and recorded observations on napkins and pieces of newspaper. They kept their identities in disguise because if they had revealed that their purpose was to conduct an experiment on the behaviors of the people in the bar, it might have triggered that some people changed their usual attitudes.

world war i had a devastating effect on german-americans and their cultural heritage. up until that point   german-americans, as a group, had been spared much of the discrimination, abuse, rejection, collective mistrust experienced by so many different racial and ethnic groups in the history of the united states. indeed, over the years, they had been viewed as a well integrated and esteemed part of american society. all of this change with the outbreak of war.