Polling firms respond to the difficulties of obtaining a body of respondents that truly reflects the population at large by:
A. sampling the responses of the target group.
B. weighting the responses of various groups.
C. randomly selecting the best responses.
D. counting the number of positive responses.
E. counting the number of negative responses.
Answer: B
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