A population is defined as _________.
A) the complete set of individuals living in Seattle in a study interested in the complete set of individuals living in the US.
B) the complete set of individuals the investigator wishes to generalize to from an experiment.
C) the complete set of individuals, objects, or scores that the investigator is interested in studying
D) a and c
E) b and c

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A population in research refers to the complete set of individuals, objects, or scores that the investigator is interested in studying. This includes both the specific group the researcher wishes to generalize findings to (choice B) and the broader set of subjects of interest (choice C).

A Population Is Defined as _________