Recall the description of the political poll taken by Literary Digest about the Landon vs. Roosevelt election. This is an example of a potential error that can be made when doing survey research involving political polls. What is the lesson that survey researchers learned from this error?

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The best choice is D because the error made in the Literary Digest poll was that the sample was not representative because it relied on self-selection and non-random sampling methods. Survey researchers learned from this error that it is important to use random selection to obtain a representative sample to reduce bias and increase the accuracy of poll predictions. Choices A, B, and C are not accurate lessons learned from this error.

Recall the Description of the Political Poll Taken by Literary