Question

Alyssa is starting her senior psychology project. She has decided learn more about American attitudes toward supersize soda bans. She lives in New York City, but realizes that she probably needs to include a subset of the population that goes beyond her city. She wants to choose a _____, which would allow her to generalize her findings from her sample to the larger population.

Answer 1

Answer: Representative sample

Explanation:

Representative sample is the subgroup of the entities or people that represent the larger population for the research subject in a study or research. This subgroups displays characteristics and traits of the larger statistical population.

According to the question,Alyssa wants to choose representative samples of American population as subset to carry out her research on behavior of people towards soda ban.