Psychology majors at the state college consist of 40% males and 60% females. The psychology department is conducting a survey of its majors and obtains a sample by randomly selecting students so there will be 20 males and 30 females from the list of psychology majors. What kind of sampling is used in this example?

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This is an example of proportionate stratified random sampling because the sample size for each gender group is proportionate to the population size of each group in the psychology major.

Psychology Majors at the State College Consist of 40% Males