Your professor asks you to research the influence of major on the study habits of students at your university. What is the best way for you to sample this population?
A. Go to several dorms and knock on doors and ask people to answer your questions.
B. Wait outside the largest lecture hall on campus, at different times of the day, and see if you can't get volunteers from passersby.
C. Ask your friends your questions, and have them refer their friends to you as well.
D. Use the online student phone listing system to pick out every 137th student, starting with a name randomly chosen, until you reach a sufficiently large number of willing participants.
D
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