Question

In this activity, you will design and conduct a survey. Select a topic for your survey.

d. Are the people you surveyed representative of the group you want to study?

What does D mean?

Answer 1

If you wanted to study students' favorite school lunches, you wouldn't ask the teachers or students who always bring their lunches. For your sampling to represent your study group, they must be like the larger group.

Answer 2

So if I interviewed a group of people under 10 and interviewed all people in the group, would that meet the requirements?

Answer 3

What are you studying? What hypothesis are you testing? You can't possibly interview all people under 10.

Answer 4

I mean a group at my gym.