A Researcher Would Like to Describe and Compare the Attitudes

question 28

Multiple Choice

A researcher would like to describe and compare the attitudes of four different ethnic groups of students at a local state college. To obtain participants for the study while ensuring sufficient numbers of participants from each of the ethnic groups, the researcher should probably use ____ sampling.

• A) simple random
• B) stratified random
• C) cluster random
• D) systematic

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Definitions:

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