Exam 1: Defining and Collecting Data

The Human Resources Director of a large corporation wishes to develop an employee benefits package and decides to select 500 employees from a list of all (N = 40,000)workers in order to study their preferences for the various components of a potential package.The 500 employees who will participate in this study constitute the ________.

TABLE 1-1 The manager of the customer service division of a major consumer electronics company is interested in determining whether the customers who have purchased a Blu-ray player made by the company over the past 12 months are satisfied with their products. -Referring to Table 1-1,the possible responses to the question "Are you happy,indifferent,or unhappy with the performance per dollar spent on the Blu-ray player?" result in

Which of the following sampling methods will more likely be susceptible to ethical violation when used to form conclusions about the entire population?

TABLE 1-2 A Wall Street Journal poll asked 2,150 adults in the United States a series of questions to find out their view on the U.S.economy. -Referring to Table 1-2,the possible responses to the question "How many out of every 10 U.S.voters do you think feel that the U.S.economy is in good shape?" are values from a

Which of the following sampling methods will more likely be susceptible to ethical violation when used to form conclusions about the entire population?

Which of the following types of samples can you use if you want to make valid statistical inferences from a sample to a population?

True or False: The amount of alcohol consumed by a person per week will be measured on an interval scale.

TABLE 1-1 The manager of the customer service division of a major consumer electronics company is interested in determining whether the customers who have purchased a Blu-ray player made by the company over the past 12 months are satisfied with their products. -Referring to Table 1-1,the possible responses to the question "In which year were you born?" are values from a

TABLE 1-1 The manager of the customer service division of a major consumer electronics company is interested in determining whether the customers who have purchased a Blu-ray player made by the company over the past 12 months are satisfied with their products. -Referring to Table 1-1,the possible responses to the question "How many Blu-ray players made by other manufacturers have you used?" result in