Which of the following is a potential limitation of using probability sampling to predict a population attitude?
a. People may change their attitudes on important topics after the sample is collected.
b. Random samples are generally poor predictors of population characteristics.
c. The population has greater variability than does the sample.
d. Probability samples tend to have extremely high standard deviations.
a
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