Asociologist wants to study racial discrimination in hiring, and decides to either distribute a survey asking employers about their hiring methods, or conduct an experiment that involves sending fake resumes to employers to see who gets an interview. which method would best examine racial discrimination in hiring and why?

conduct an experiment that involves sending fake resumes to employers to see who gets an interview.

Explanation:

In a survey one has to ask straight questions to someone in order to get answers and given the nature of this topic an employer will know what is expected or accepted as a right answer hence they may not tell it as it is but may try not to look bad.

They may construct or come up with answers that fit the bill or that will align exactly with non racial discriminating companies or employers.

However if the researcher send fake resumes , they will not know that these are fake and will act exactly as how they act on daily basis and will respond appropriately.

Even if it may be good or bad response but it will be genuine response since they will be not aware that this is for research purposes.