To conduct a survey on current political science majors, a researcher gets a list of all students who have declared a political science major from the registrar from which a sample will be drawn. This list is known as what?
A) A sample
B) A population
C) A target population
D) An aggregation
E) A sampling frame

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The list of students who have declared a political science major from the registrar is the sampling frame, which is the list of all units (in this case, students) from which a sample will be drawn. A population refers to the entire group of units that the researcher wants to generalize findings to, while a sample is the subset of the population that the researcher actually studies. A target population refers to the specific group of individuals that the researcher wants to make inferences about, and an aggregation refers to the combining of multiple units into one entity.

To Conduct a Survey on Current Political Science Majors, a Researcher