Researchers rarely have access to entire populations. How do researchers resolve this limitation?

A. They do not need to resolve this; it is not a limitation at all.
B. They record data from an entire population of people to make inferences concerning characteristics in a sample.
C. They record data from as many persons in a population as possible to draw conclusions concerning only those individuals.
D. They record data from a sample of people in the larger population in order to make inferences concerning characteristics in that larger population.


Ans: D

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