Truly random samples are rarely used in research in the social sciences because
a. People vary too much for them to be randomly selected
b. Science has not yet developed the methods and procedures to allow for us to randomly select from a population
c. We almost never have access to the whole population from which to select the sample
d. Scientists cannot agree on an operational definition of random
Ans: C
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