1. Suppose there are 750 students in our class and we want to compare the averag

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1. Suppose there are 750 students in our class and we want to compare the average GPA of males in our class to the average GPA for females in our class.

a) What is the population of interest?

b) What is the element for this example?

c) What could we use for the frame?

2. Describe one disadvantage of using quota sampling instead of probability sampling.

3. Think of a survey that you’ve seen or perhaps even responded to in the past. For the following, please don’t use an example we already talked about in class (e.g. income, age):

a) Give an example of an appropriate open question and provide a few example responses to that open question.

b) Give an example of how a similar question could be closed and provide a few example responses to that closed question.

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Dear student please post the question one at a time

1)a)Population of interest is the population you are trying to draw an inference about from the collected data sets.

Here it will be Male students in class, and female students in class

b) Element for this example will be the males and females in the class.

c)You could use the class record for the GPA of the students as your frame

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