Question

Suppose that you were going to conduct a survey of visitors to your campus. you want the survey to be as representative as possible.

a. how would you select the people to survey?

b. why would that be your best method?

Answer 1

To make sure you have a representative sample, you should conduct a random survey and then ensure that the sample size is large enough to accurately reflect the population. Random samples remove the possibility of bias from the researcher.