Each time Samantha has observed a person using government food vouchers to pay for groceries,the person has been an Hispanic female,so she thinks that the vast majority of food voucher users are Hispanic females.Samantha has fallen victim to
A) sampling bias.
B) naturalistic observation.
C) a case study.
D) random sampling.

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Samantha has used a non-representative sample of people that she observed using government food vouchers and has made a generalization about the wider population based on that biased sample. Therefore, she has fallen victim to sampling bias. The other answer choices do not apply in this scenario.

Each Time Samantha Has Observed a Person Using Government Food