In Selecting a Sample of Articles from a Daily Newspaper

question 28

Multiple Choice

In selecting a sample of articles from a daily newspaper for content analysis, suppose articles are taken from every 14th issue of the newspaper. Such a sample would contain a problem because of:

• A)reliability.
• B)periodicity.
• C)missing data.
• D)lack of pretesting.

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Definitions:

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