Sociology / Unit 2 Soc 0158 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Population and Sample
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The idea
The population is everyone a study aims to describe; the sample is the smaller group actually studied and generalized from.
In practice
To describe a university's twenty thousand students, a researcher may study four hundred of them.
Where people slip
A finding is only about the population the sample was drawn from.
Your place on the trail
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