31)A researcher gave a representative sample of professors at Whatsa Mata U a questionnaire about the importance of teaching. The researcher finds that on average these professors feel that teaching is important. The researcher then reports that professors at Whatsa Mata U value teaching. This researcher has just engaged in A)false reasoning. B)deductive reasoning. C)inductive reasoning. D)sample reasoning. 32)A researcher wishes to survey the opinions of science teachers in Canada about science policy. He/she gives the questionnaire to all the biology teachers in the Ontario high schools. What is the sample in this study? A)High school teachers in Ontario. B)Biology teachers in Ontario high schools. C)Science teachers in Canada. D)Science teachers in Ontario high schools. 33)The sample in survey research must be drawn in such a way as to A)adequately represent the population to which we want to generalize. B)be able to randomly assign participants to groups. C)minimize researcher bias. D)minimize the variance. 34)The heart of survey research is A)statistical analysis. B)the careful selection of representative samples. C)a commitment to the democratic system. D)getting a quick public response to an issue. 35)Carrying out a survey by interviewing the first 100 people coming out of a movie theater would be an example of A)a status survey. B)nonprobability sampling. C)probability sampling. D)simple random sampling. 36)The chief advantage of nonprobability sampling is that A)the results are not biased. B)it constitutes a representative sample. C)it is easy to carry out. D)it is expensive compared to other methods. 37)If a researcher wishes to have confidence in inferences from a sample to a population, the sample must A)represent adequately the population to which he/she wants to generalize. B)be small enough not to incorporate the entire population. C)be large enough to incorporate the entire population. D)represent populations other than the one about which he/she wishes to generalize. 38)Random sampling is a type of ________ sampling. A)nonprobability B)probability C)nonrepresentative D)None of the above 39)Interviewing the first 50 people who walk into a store is an example of A)probability sampling. B)simple random sampling. C)stratified random sampling. D)nonprobability sampling. 40)What is the major disadvantage of nonprobability sampling? A)It is difficult to carry out. B)The sample may not be representative of the total population. C)The statistical procedures needed are not easily available. D)The robustness of the sample is decreased. Â