Projecting Findings Based on Nonprobability Sampling to the Population Is

question 39

True/False

Projecting findings based on nonprobability sampling to the population is misleading and therefore unethical.

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Definitions:

Energy Flow

The transfer and transformation of energy through an ecosystem, from primary producers to various levels of consumers and decomposers.

Net Primary Productivity

The rate at which plants and other photosynthetic organisms produce organic compounds in an ecosystem minus the rate at which they use some of these compounds for cellular respiration.

Biomass

Organic material derived from living or recently living organisms, used as a source of energy or in various industrial processes.

Food Web

A network of interlinked food chains in an ecosystem, showing how each organism is food for the next level.