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joblessjake

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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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Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

a



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