The logic behind samples and populations is that
a. measuring the population is usually the desirable approach.
b. the scores in a sample can be used to estimate the scores we would expect to find if we could measure a population.
c. it is much less expensive to measure a sample than to measure an entire population.
d. there is no need to measure an entire population because any sample produces the same results.
B
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