Lelani wants to know what percentage of all American college students receive financial aid their freshman year. She attends a two-year community college, to which many students commute to campus every day. She stands outside the dining hall one weekday evening and hands out surveys to every third person entering the hall for dinner. Her data will
A) not be generalizable to all American college students, because she did not use a representative sample.
B) be completely invalid, because evenings are never a good time to do research.
C) be valid and generalizable, because she used random sampling and a representative sample.
D) be valid and generalizable as long as she continues to stand there; her presence will compel people to return the surveys to her.
Correct Answer:
Verified
Q1: Andrew has taught his dog to do
Q10: Priscilla wants to design a study that
Q11: Sarah has just moved to a new
Q15: For her experimental psychology class, Kristen has
Q17: Sitting in the park one sunny day,
Q18: Adira is driving to work when she
Q19: Ramon is studying bullying behaviour among elementary
Q20: Nahele has agreed to participate in a
Q21: Edward hires a statistician to analyze the
Q38: Ashley does a correlational study and learns
Unlock this Answer For Free Now!
View this answer and more for free by performing one of the following actions
Scan the QR code to install the App and get 2 free unlocks
Unlock quizzes for free by uploading documents