Telephone Directories Can Be Inadequate Sampling Frames

question 12

Essay

Telephone directories can be inadequate sampling frames.Suppose the population were defined as "all telephone subscribers in the directory's service area." What criticisms could you make of the telephone directory as a sampling frame?

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Definitions:

Stimuli

External factors or changes in the environment that affect the senses and can elicit responses from an organism.

Determinism

The philosophical belief that all events, including moral choices, are determined completely by previously existing causes, implying that free will is an illusion.

Mental Terms

Language or vocabulary related to psychological states, processes, disorders, or treatments.

B. F. Skinner

An American psychologist and behaviorist known for his work in developing the theory of operant conditioning, which uses consequences to modify the occurrence and form of behavior.