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Who, What, and How Many MCQ

1. A census is a study of every member of a sample.

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Correct Answer: False

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2. Research findings from volunteer samples may be biased because you have no idea what non-volunteers might have said.

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Correct Answer: True

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3. If you want to get a representative sample of the country’s population, what would the easiest types of sampling to use be?

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Correct Answer: Multistage cluster

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4. Throwing dice and drawing names out of a hat are both examples of what kind of sampling?

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Correct Answer: Random

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5. A population consists of every individual of a type you want to study.

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Correct Answer: True

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6. If you are trying to access a special population like military families or prisoners, it can be difficult. An effective way of reaching these groups is to use what kind of sampling?

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Correct Answer: Internet-based snowball

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7. There are several factors that impact the sample size you use for your research. Which of the following influence sample size?

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Correct Answer: All of these

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8. Non-probability sampling has an advantage of convenience over probability sampling.

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Correct Answer: True

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9. Sampling that is based on the idea that a specific person or media content will meet specific criteria the researcher may have is ______ sampling.

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Correct Answer: Purposive

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10. Elizabeth decides to interview students who live on campus and those who live off campus so she can compare their attitudes about the campus food service. She decides to interview 10 students. She knows that 80% of students live on campus, so she decides to interview eight resident students and two students who live off campus. This is an example of ______ sampling.

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Correct Answer: Purposive

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11. Sampling theory says that we do NOT need large samples as long as we can live with a level of uncertainty about the population we are trying to understand.

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Correct Answer: True

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12. Probability sampling means that every unit has an equal chance of being selected.

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Correct Answer: True

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13. Sampling frames are the master lists from which a sample is selected.

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Correct Answer: True

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14. Stratified random sampling ensures that all the groups of interest to the researcher are proportionately represented in a sample.

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Correct Answer: True

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15. What is a type of stratified sample based on media items separated by the day on which they were published or posted?

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Correct Answer: Constructed week

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16. Constructed Week Sampling is a type of _____ sampling which sample dates represent all seven days of the week to account for systematic variation.

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Correct Answer: Random

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17. A telephone survey method in which phone numbers are randomly dialed in hopes of reaching unlisted numbers is known as ______.

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Correct Answer: Random digit dialing

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18. Survey sampling using address data provided by the _____ is known as address-based sampling.

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Correct Answer: U.S. postal service

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19. For a sampling distribution (the distribution of scores for a sample), the ______is called the standard error.

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Correct Answer: Standard deviation

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20. Homogeneity is the degree is _____ in a population.

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Correct Answer: Sameness

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21. Piloting is a _____.A small study conducted prior to a full-scale study to ensure that the full-scale study will work successfully.

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Correct Answer: Prototype

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22. Sampling based on first sampling large units is called Multistage _____ Sampling.

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Correct Answer: Cluster

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23. The interval selected in systematic sampling (e.g., every 10th or 100th unit) is called _____.

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Correct Answer: Sampling interval

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24. Sampling by selecting every _____ unit from a population is called systematic sampling.

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Correct Answer: Nth

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25. Sampling in which randomly selected units from small or minority populations are forced into the sample ensuring that they represent in proportion to their presence is called Stratified Random Sampling.

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Correct Answer: True

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26. A device for generating a _____ of numbers that has no pattern is called Random Numbers Generator.

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Correct Answer: Sequence

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27. Sampling in which every member of a population has an equal chance to be selected and in which selection is determined by “_____” rather than a decision by the researcher is called random sampling.

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Correct Answer: Luck of the draw

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28. The units selected for study are called _____ units.

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Correct Answer: Sampling

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29. The master list from which a sample is selected is called the sampling frame.

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Correct Answer: True

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30. Sampling based on a judgment by the researcher is called _____ sampling.

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Correct Answer: Probability.

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31. Obtaining a sample by asking for _____is Volunteer Sampling.

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Correct Answer: Volunteer

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32. Sampling using members of a network to introduce a researcher to other members of the network is called _____ sampling.

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Correct Answer: Snowball

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33. Sampling using members of a network to introduce a researcher to other members of the network.

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Correct Answer: True

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34. Sampling that attempts to replicate in a sample the features that the researcher thinks are important in the population is _____sampling.

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Correct Answer: Quota

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35. Sampling based on specific criteria the researcher may have is Purposive Sampling.

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Correct Answer: True

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36. Sampling based on convenience to the _____ is called Convenience Sampling.

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Correct Answer: Researcher

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37. Sampling based on a judgment by the researcher is called Nonprobability Sampling.

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Correct Answer: True

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38. A set of individuals or items selected from a wider population is called _____.

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Correct Answer: Sample

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39. A study of every member of a population is called _____.

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Correct Answer: Census

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40. Every individual or item of a type you want to study is called _____.

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Correct Answer: Population

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