A Researcher Wants to Investigate the Response of Students on a College

question 52

Multiple Choice

A researcher wants to investigate the response of students on a college campus to a plan to turn a grassy area into a parking lot.She plans to give a questionnaire to a random sample of students.It is likely that:

• A) her results would generalize to the population of interest to her
• B) she would not be able to generalize her results because she is using a convenience sample
• C) if she repeated the study with another random sample, she would get very different results
• D) her findings are not representative of the attitudes of students on the campus

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