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Sampling and Experimentation — Test

Question 8 • Statistics

Education researchers are interested in the workload expectations of freshmen at a local university. Which of the following techniques would give a stratified random sample?

Answer
A
Randomly select 10 freshmen from the cafeteria on each of the 5 days of the first school week.
B
Randomly select 10 freshmen from each of the majors at the university.
C
Randomly select 1 professor at the university and have them survey all of their freshman students.
D
Survey the students in some randomly selected freshman seminar classes, since freshmen are randomly put into those classes.

Explanation

A stratified random sample divides the population into groups, then randomly selects people from every group. Here, the freshmen are divided by major, and 10 freshmen are randomly selected from each major. That makes choice B, randomly selecting 10 freshmen from each major, the stratified random sample. Choice D instead selects whole classes, which is a cluster-sampling approach.

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