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1. Strange as it may seem, a sample of 1,500 mir-
True rors a population of 250 million just as
accu- rately as it would a population of
10,000.
2. Ignorance about an issue does not can get as many as one-third
necessarily prevent people from expressing
opinions. In- deed, pollsters of the people they interview to
otter opin- ions on entirely
3. As response rates to traditional phone imaginary issues.
calls drop and Internet and mobile
platforms con- tinue to replace existing
modes of communi- cation, new methods True
are developing that use the science of
statistics to construct samples that
represent the population without being
randomly drawn from the population.
4. What ideological label do we use to
describe those who distrust government,
have greater faith in private enterprise and
free markets, and are more willing to use
government to en- force traditional moral Conservatives
standards?
5. Which of the following is a simple definition
of public opinion proposed by the political
scien- tist V. O. Key Jr.?
6. Which of the following is true about "Those opinions held by
opinion leaders? private per- sons which
governments find it pru- dent
7. Which of the following statements about to heed"
sam- pling is true?
They pay close attention to
political issues and from them the
uninformed take cues.
The larger the sample the more
close- ly the sample's answers
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