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sjones

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The goal of most psychology research is to test hypotheses regarding how certain psychological variables relate to one another, not to describe how a population behaves. Therefore,
 
  a. cluster samples provide the most accurate estimations in psychology
  b. convenience samples should be avoided in psychological research
   c. probability samples are rare in psychology
  d. nonresponse is not a problem in psychology
  e. simple random samples are required in psychological research

Question 2

Which of the following is a nonprobability sample?
 
  a. quota
  b. simple random
  c. stratified random
  d. cluster
  e. these are all nonprobability samples


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Kedrick2014

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Reply #1 on: Jul 13, 2018
Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

A


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Reply 2 on: Jul 13, 2018
Excellent

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