When planning a study, Dr. Doe developed a participant pool that contained the same percentages of minorities, same gender make-up, and same socioeconomic make-up as the general population he planned to study. In fact, this sample has a similar makeup as the population on all variables. Dr. Doe’s sample was a:

a. Critical-case sample
b. Biased sample
c. Representative sample
d. Homogeneous sample


Ans: c

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