Quiz Question: Chapter 7

In a community of 200 college students living in an apartment building; 50 are Latino, 50 are white, 50 are Asian and 50 are African America. In order to recruit a group for a study about college students living in apartment buildings there is a need to select 100 from the group, to do so all students will write their name on an index card which will be folded in half. A random person who we assume is unbias will select 100 of the folded index cards from a container. What is the first selection representative of?

A) a sampling unit

B) random selection

C) representativeness

D) quota sampling

B is correct because the selection of the 100 students will be done with equal chances for someone in the 4 groups to be chosen without any perceived outside forces acting on the selection process.