Liam develops a secondary data set of newspaper articles about presidential elections from 1950 to 2016.He sees that election coverage varies significantly by election,so he has varying numbers of articles from the various elections.He accounts for this discrepancy with
A)a coding scheme.
B)primary data.
C)triangulation.
D)sampling weights.

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Sampling weights are used to account for discrepancies in the number of observations in a data set. In this case, Liam has varying numbers of articles from different elections, so he can use sampling weights to adjust for the differences and ensure that his data accurately represents the entire period from 1950 to 2016. A coding scheme would be used to categorize and organize the data, but it would not account for the discrepancies in the number of observations. Primary data refers to data collected directly from original sources, so it is not applicable in this scenario. Triangulation involves using multiple methods to collect or analyze data, which is not relevant to this specific issue.

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