You wish to survey the interests of students in your statistics class. You enter the names of all students onto an Excel spreadsheet. You then use a computer program to generate a list of random names. This is called:
A)computerized selection
B)haphazard selection
C)sampling selection
D)random selection

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The method described is random selection, which is the best choice for obtaining an unbiased sample of the population. Computerized selection, haphazard selection, and sampling selection may introduce bias into the sample selection process.

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