At a basic level, when deciding whether a sample is representative of a particular population, we

a. make the decision based on intuition.
b. are also deciding whether the population is the one we should be testing.
c. decide against low-probability events in favor of high-probability events.
d. go for the long shot and decide against high-probability events.


C

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a. TAT c. Rorschach b. MMPI-2 d. WAIS

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