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Housing proposal across dorms. On a large college campus
Chapter , Problem 1.18(choose chapter or problem)
On a large college campus first-year students and sophomores live in dorms located on the eastern part of the campus and juniors and seniors live in dorms located on the western part of the campus. Suppose you want to collect student opinions on a new housing structure the college administration is proposing and you want to make sure your survey equally represents opinions from students from all years.
(a) What type of study is this?
(b) Suggest a sampling strategy for carrying out this study
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QUESTION:
On a large college campus first-year students and sophomores live in dorms located on the eastern part of the campus and juniors and seniors live in dorms located on the western part of the campus. Suppose you want to collect student opinions on a new housing structure the college administration is proposing and you want to make sure your survey equally represents opinions from students from all years.
(a) What type of study is this?
(b) Suggest a sampling strategy for carrying out this study
ANSWER:Step 1 of 2
1. Since we want to collect student opinions on new housing structures and make sure that the survey equally represents the opinions of all students.
Major thing to note here is that we need to collect opinions and not the reason behind those opinions. Therefore the researchers is not concerned about how the data rise.
Thus, the study is of observational type.