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Social Psychology 9th Edition by David Myers

Edition 9ISBN: 978-0073310268
book Social Psychology 9th Edition by David Myers cover

Social Psychology 9th Edition by David Myers

Edition 9ISBN: 978-0073310268
Exercise 32
In 1936, the news magazine Literary Digest obtained the opinions of over two million Americans regarding the presidential election. The results suggested that Landon would win in a landslide over Franklin D. Roosevelt. A few weeks later, FDR won in a landslide. The results of the survey were not valid, and this was due to
A) a lack of random assignment.
B) a sampling bias.
C) confounding variables.
D) a lack of experimental control.
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The survey suffered from sampling bias b


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