You want to run a survey about people's attitudes in the U.S. towards nuclear power. You send a survey to 5000 people from a randomly generated list of people in the U.S. and a third of them respond. You tally up the data and find that almost everyone in the sample has made up their minds on the issue: only 10% of respondents answered "unsure". You conclude that about 90% of U.S. residents have made up their minds on nuclear power. The clearest concern raised by this method as described is:
A. failure to stratify the sample
B. insufficient sample size
C. sampling bias
D. participation bias
Answer: D. participation bias
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other beliefs that we already accept as true.
a. pragmatic b. foundationalist c. coherence d. correspondence
Which of the following philosophers accepted the coherence theory of truth?
a. Dharmakirti b. Vatsyayana c. John Dewey d. Charles S. Peirce
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A) A theoretical definition. B) A demonstrative definition. C) A persuasive definition. D) An astronomical definition. E) An operational definition.
"Every country in the world should reject capitalism as an unfair economic system" is
A) conservative B) non-conservative C) controversial