A researcher recruited participants for a survey about experiences with unemployment through an advertisement and offered free resume reviews and job search services as incentives. The respondents were thus more likely to be motivated to search for a job, compared to nonrespondents. This problem is called

a. Volunteer bias
b. Coverage bias
c. Sampling variability
d. Sampling error


a. Volunteer bias

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