In the weeks immediately following Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia's death, much focus was on the conflict between President Obama's suggestion that he must fill the position and the Republican-led Senate Judiciary committee's resistance to his doing so. At this time, a Pew Research Poll of 1002 adults found that a majority of Americans (56 percent) said that the Senate should hold hearings and vote on President Obama's choice to fill the vacancy.
This study is a(n):
A) observational study.
B) experiment.
C) sample survey.
D) population.

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The study is a sample survey because it involved polling a group of 1002 adults to determine their opinions on the Senate holding hearings and voting on President Obama's nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy. It was not an experiment because there was no intervention or manipulation of variables. It was also not an observational study because there was no direct observation of behavior or actions. The population in this case would be all American adults, but the study only surveyed a sample of that population.

In the Weeks Immediately Following Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin