Telephone Directories Are Notorious for Being Inadequate Sampling Frames

question 25

Essay

Telephone directories are notorious for being inadequate sampling frames.Suppose the population was 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:

Immoral

Actions or behaviors that are considered wrong or unethical by societal standards.

Deception

The act of concealing the truth or misleading others through false statements or actions.

Personal Unconscious

A term in Jungian psychology referring to the component of the mind holding forgotten or repressed memories and personal experiences.

Psychic Energy

In psychoanalytic theory, the force attributed to the psychological workings of the mind and the driving power behind behavior and thought.