Judy is working on her senior thesis to get her BA in sociology. She is interested in finding out what Americans think about the death penalty by use of survey methods. Which of the following sampling designs would BEST allow Judy to generalize to the American population?

a.
putting up a flyer with the survey's url on the bulletin board of all the coffee shops in town.

b.
mailing a copy of the survey to every 25th person in the phone book of three cities and three towns across the country.

c.
posting the survey on her Facebook page and asking each of her Facebook friends to post it on their page.

d.
having her father send the survey out to his financial planning company listserv.


b.
mailing a copy of the survey to every 25th person in the phone book of three cities and three towns across the country.

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