The author of your textbook suggests that you run a pilot study using which two populations?
a. professors and friends
b. friends, and the population to be sampled in the full research project
c. friends and relatives
d. strangers from another campus and seniors from your school
B
Friends might be good to test because they will tell you what they really think. The target population would be good to test because they are more similar to the real participants.
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a. 1/10 b. 1/5 c. 1/4 d. 1/3 e. 1/2
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