Professor McDevey has finally achieved his lifelong goal of developing McDevey's Reading Achievement Test. As a publisher, you are concerned with the fact that the professor normed his instrument on youngsters living in a university town. Why might a university town not be representative of the U.S. population at large? What factors will you consider while critically evaluating this instrument?

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