In Conducting a Personal Interview, the Interviewer Is Allowed to Arbitrarily

question 15

Multiple Choice

In conducting a personal interview, the interviewer is allowed to arbitrarily decide who should be interviewed. Which of the following statements is true?

• A) This is a biased sample.
• B) This is a voluntary response sample.
• C) This is a simple random sample.
• D) This is an unbiased sample
• E) This is a representative sample.

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