A researcher identifies college students as a group of interest to test her hypothesis.She then identifies a few local college students and selects a small group of the local college students to be observed.In this example,the sample is:
A)not clearly identified
B)all college students
C)the few local college students
D)the small group of college students who here observed

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The sample in this example is the small group of college students who were observed. This is because the researcher identified college students as the group of interest, but then narrowed down her focus by selecting a specific group of local college students to observe. Therefore, the small group being observed is the sample, not all college students or the few local college students as a whole.

A Researcher Identifies College Students as a Group of Interest