Question

A university would like to know how their undergraduate students feel about taking a statistics class for the first time. To gain information about this question, the university performs a research study. Which of the following would be the most appropriate sample for the university to collect?

Question 4 options:

	Data from all male students in college in the USA.
	Data from students in college in the USA.
	Data from senior college students who have taken at least one statistics class.
	Data from a group of students registered for their first statistics class at the university.

Answer 1

Data from senior college students who have taken at least one statistics class.

Since the university would like to know how their undergraduate students feel about taking a statistics class for the first time, therefore their sample should be of the students who have already taken the statistics class so they would have some base of comparison. To gain insights it is better to collect information from senior college students who have taken at least one statistics class as they have gone through the experience of studying for it. Just taking data from newly registered students would not be practical.

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