Jasmine is an African American graduate student. She is conducting research on t

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Jasmine is an African American graduate student. She is conducting research on the effects that affirmative action programs have had on American corporations. She found that 95 percent of the subjects she personally interviewed with open-ended questions, covering a diverse sample of 500 corporate executives, stated that they approved of affirmative action. Her response rate approving affirmative action programs was dramatically higher than the national average. In view of this, Jasmine's research was most likely affected by ________.

A) research fraud

B) interviewer bias

C) biased sample

D) poor interviewing technique

Explanation / Answer

C) biased sample

This is because the sample taken (500 people) is too less than the national population. Also, not all corporation executives were interviewed. Only one corporate executives were interviewed, leading to a biased sample.

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