To study adolescents' attitudes toward contraceptive use, a researcher recruits subjects from a waiting room of a community clinic that offers free contraceptive services to all. This researcher has a sample that is ____

a. not representative of all adolescents
b. similar to the general population of adolescents
c. representative of adolescents in America, but not other developed nations
d. representative of female adolescents and not males


A. Recruiting at a community clinic limits one's subject pool and is biased.

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