Advice Columnists Respond to Only a Fraction of the Letters

question 65

Multiple Choice

Advice columnists respond to only a fraction of the letters they receive.If a researcher were to analyze only the columnists' printed letters to describe the everyday problems people face,which problem likely will affect the researcher's findings?

• A) selective survival
• B) selective deposit
• C) spurious relationship
• D) situation sampling

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