The object that possesses the information sought by the researcher and about which inferences are to be made is a ________.
A)population
B)target population
C)element
D)census

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The object that possesses the information sought by the researcher is called an element. A population is a larger group that the researcher wants to generalize the findings to. A target population is a specific subgroup of the larger population of interest. A census is when data is collected from every element in the population, while in most cases, a sample composed of a representative subset of the population is used instead.

The Object That Possesses the Information Sought by the Researcher