Researchers Prefer to Select Participants Who Accurately Represent the Larger

question 149

Multiple Choice

Researchers prefer to select participants who accurately represent the larger population that the researcher is interested in.This type of group is called a(n)

• A)experimental sample.
• B)single-blind sample.
• C)significance tests.
• D)representative sample.

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