Lisa,a student working for the school journal,is conducting a rough pretest of a survey to determine the maximum amount students are willing to pay for the journal.She distributes the survey to the first 50 students she runs into.The sample she is using is called:

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A convenience sample is a group of subjects who are easy to get: students who walk through the union, people at a shopping mall, workers in your own unit. Convenience samples are useful for a rough pretest of a questionnaire and may be acceptable for some class research projects. However, you cannot generalize from a convenience sample to a larger group.

Lisa,a Student Working for the School Journal,is Conducting a Rough