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Question 17 • Statistical Modeling - Content Recovery - Part B

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 each of the majors at the university.
B
Randomly select 10 freshmen from the cafeteria on each of the 5 days of the first school week.
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 relevant groups, or strata, and randomly samples from each group. Choice A treats each major as a stratum and randomly selects 10 freshmen from every major. The cafeteria and seminar approaches sample by location or class, while surveying one professor’s students is a cluster-style approach rather than sampling from every stratum.

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