Using the General Social Survey as an example, the concept of the sampling distribution allows us to link the sample of about ____ respondents to the population of about _______ adult Americans.
A) 10,000, 200 million
B) 225 million, 3000
C) a few million, 300 million
D) several thousand, 235 million

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The General Social Survey is a nationally representative survey of adult Americans, with a sample size of several thousand respondents. The sampling distribution allows us to generalize the findings from this sample to the population of approximately 235 million adult Americans. Choices A and B have incorrect population estimates, and choice C has an overly large sample size.

Using the General Social Survey as an Example, the Concept