If a College Professor Surveyed His Students About Their Attitudes

question 251

Multiple Choice

If a college professor surveyed his students about their attitudes concerning the social security system and concluded that young adults doubt that they will ever receive social security benefits,his conclusion would be flawed because

• A) his students were not a representative sample of young adults.
• B) he did not survey the entire population of young adults.
• C) he knew his subjects before he surveyed them.
• D) his students were a random sample.

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Definitions:

Symbolize

To represent or stand for something else, especially through the use of symbols or imagery.

Negation

A compound statement whose truth value is the opposite truth value of its component statement.

Disjunction

A logical operation that results in true if at least one of its premises is true.

Conditional

A logical statement that has the form "If A then B," implying B is true if A is true.