What is an important way to help insure that one's experimental sample of participants is adequately representative of the population from which it is drawn?
A) pretest all participants
B) survey participants about demographic characteristics
C) randomly select participants from the population
D) use a small sample

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Randomly selecting participants from the population helps ensure that the sample is representative by giving all members of the population an equal chance of being selected, thus minimizing selection bias.

What Is an Important Way to Help Insure That One's