Why should researchers be careful about using the Internet to conduct public opinion polls?
What will be an ideal response?
An ideal response will:
1, Explain that Internet polling has the problem of nonrandom sampling.
2, Discuss the difference between random and nonrandom sampling and the goals of random sampling.
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What was key object of federal regulation in the 19th century?
A. railroads B. newspapers C. environment D. housing
Between December 2007 and December 2011, several states, including Oregon, Colorado, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Delaware
a. experienced at least a 30 percent increase in TANF recipients. b. experienced at least a 30 percent decline in TANF recipients. c. moved 70 percent of their welfare recipients into the workforce. d. moved 70 percent of their welfare recipients into their State Children's Health Insurance Programs.
The research project that tested the tendency to obey authority figures even when orders are directly against one's ethical code through the imaginary use of electric shock is the ______________
A) ARTICHOKE program B) Zimbardo experiment C) Humphreys' study D) Milgram experiment
In the U.S. Supreme Court case of Guinn v. United States (1915), the court ruled that
A) poll taxes were illegal.
B) literacy tests were constitutional.
C) the grandfather clause violated the Fifteenth Amendment.
D) the Fourteenth Amendment was unconstitutional.