Dr. Vandepolder is conducting a study on American Midwest college students' radio-listening habits. He doesn't have the resources to survey all college students in the Midwest, so he uses census data to randomly select a group of several thousand students from Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota to participate in the study. In this study, the group of all American Midwest college students is called the _____, while the group randomly selected from Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota is called the _____.
a. sample; control group
b. sample; population
c. control group; population
d. population; sample
Question 2
If asked to list the characteristics of a good theory, you should AVOID saying
a. speculative.
b. supported by data.
c. internally consistent.
d. falsifiable.
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