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1. In a local community, 3 different Publix stores are chosen randomly, out of all 15 Publix stores in the community, and the salaries of all 3 employees in those 3 stores are used as data. Is an example of what sampling technique?
2. Which of the following is not a method of primary data collection?
3. It is commonly used in presenting qualitative data
4. What should you use when determining the number of people who want hot dogs at your cookout?
5. The purpose of this question is to understand what would motivate people to start composting.Which question meets this purpose?
6. Which is an example of a marketing-research method that is used to collect primary data?
7. Which of the following is NOT a type of primary data collection method?
8. Students in a science class record the behavior of their class pet by looking at the pet's behavior.What type of data collection method is this?
9. What kind of sampling technique is the following:List the names of all the students alphabetically and contact the parent of every 10th student.
10. Which of the following describes a standard open-ended interview.
11. What is a dependent variable in a science experiment/investigation?
12. Which of the following is true concerning observation?
13. Which sampling technique is being used? An owner of a shop want to know what her customers think about the new line of products she has gotten in. She interviews the first 15 people who come into her store and records their responses.
14. A principal orders t-shirts and wants to check some of them to make sure they were printed properly. She randomly selects 2 of the 10 boxes of shirts and checks every shirt in those 2 boxes.What type of sampling method is this?
15. Instructors teaching research methods are interested in knowing what study techniques their students are utilizing in class. Rather than assessing all students, the researchers randomly select 10 students from each of the sections to comprise their sample.
16. A random selection of people are called every morning for a week to determine if television shows are too violent.
17. It is a method that describes the behavior of the respondents that can be done either in a naturalistic or laboratory setting.
18. Primary data is preferred over secondary data where:
19. Ellie has a hunch that most of the students in her school are against the new dress code. At lunch time, she takes an opinion survey of the girls sitting at her table.
20. The middle value when the data are in numerical order
21. While students are lined up for school pictures, a teacher passes out a survey to every 10th student.
22. A researcher for an airline interviews all of the passengers on a flight he happens to be taking home from a recent trip.
23. Determining if students using a calculator on a math final exam score better than students who do not use a calculator
24. Open-ended questions provide primarily _____ data.
25. A random selection of people are called every morning for a week to determine if television shows are too violent. What type of data collection method is this?
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