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110/2017 Chapter I Jordan MacFarla 16. A study employment rate da PhD program ba

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110/2017 Chapter I Jordan MacFarla 16. A study employment rate da PhD program based on required for used data from an earlier article which used random sampling of those who took a. For this study, describe the population of interest A. Al tose who took the exam during the selected time period. O B. All people who are employed. O C. All those sampled for the data fim the previous article O D. All people who have a PhD. b. What method was used to collect the sample data? O A. The data are from a designed experiment. B. The data are from a published source. O C. The data were collected observationally c. Do you think the final sample is representative of the population? Why or why not? Comment on potential biases in the sample. O A. No, because the data only covers a limited time O B. No, because the data is now outdated. O C. Yes, the data is unbiased because the researchers did not obtain it themseves 0 D. Yes, because the original data was randomly sampled

Explanation / Answer

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a) the data is being collected for the employment benefits of getting a phd degree. so our main population of interest should be the phd holder ho have got job but this is little conservative one, so data should also include people ho have phd degree but are unemployed. so main population of interest are all phd degree holders. but according to the article population of interest is those people ho took the eam.

so option A

b) data is taken from a already published article or source.

so option B

c) data may be outdated .