Provide an Appropriate Response

question 20

Multiple Choice

Provide an appropriate response.
-The personnel manager at a company wants to investigate job satisfaction among the female employees. One evening after a meeting she talks to all 30 female employees who attended the meeting. Does this sampling plan
Result in a random sample? Simple random sample? Explain.

• A) No; yes. The sample is not random because not all female employees have the same chance of being selected. Those that didn't attend the meeting have no chance of being selected. It is a simple random
• Sample because all samples of 30 female employees have the same chance of being selected.
• B) No; no. The sample is not random because not all female employees have the same chance of being selected. Those that didn't attend the meeting have no chance of being selected. It is not a simple random
• Sample because some samples are not possible, such as a sample containing female employees who did
• Not attend the meeting.
• C) Yes; no. The sample is random because all female employees have the same chance of being selected. It is not a simple random sample because some samples are not possible, such as a sample containing female
• Employees who did not attend the meeting.
• D) Yes; yes. The sample is random because all female employees have the same chance of being selected. It is a simple random sample because all samples of size 30 have the same chance of being selected.

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Definitions:

Analysis

The process of examining components or structures of a subject to understand its nature or to determine its essential features and their relations.

Hedonism

A philosophy that argues pleasure or happiness is the highest good and ultimate aim in life.

Pursuit

The act of following or chasing with the goal of catching or achieving something.

Structural Racism

A system in which public policies, institutional practices, cultural representations, and other norms work in various, often reinforcing ways to perpetuate racial group inequity.