Stratified Random Sampling Is a Way to Ensure That ______

question 53

Multiple Choice

Stratified random sampling is a way to ensure that ______.

• A) individuals important to the researcher are selected into a sample
• B) research participants have a chance to nominate other individuals to join the study
• C) small but important subgroups of a population are captured in a sample
• D) research participants have an opportunity to shape the research project

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Definitions:

Old World Monkeys

A group of primates native to Africa and Asia, part of the family Cercopithecidae, often characterized by their non-prehensile tails.

Cultural Evolution

The process through which human societies grow and develop culturally over time, driven by the transmission of knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors from one generation to the next.

Horizontal Gene Transfer

The process whereby genetic material is moved among organisms, either unicellular or multicellular, in a manner not involving the traditional parent-to-offspring DNA transmission.

Biological Evolution

Any change in the inherited traits of a population that occurs from one generation to the next (that is, over a time period longer than the lifetime of an individual in the population).