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There are approximately 21,000 school psychologists of which 5,000 have doctoral

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Question

There are approximately 21,000 school psychologists of which 5,000 have doctoral degrees. A researcher wants to randomly select 100 of the doctoral-level psychologists for a survey study regarding aspects of their job. Use this excerpt from a random numbers table (below) ...

04493 52494 75246 33824 45862 51025 00549 97654 64051 88159 96119 63896

35963 15307 26898 09354 33351 35462 59808 08391 45427 26842 83609 49700

to answer the following question please:

(a) What is the population targeted by this study? How large is it?

Explanation / Answer

(a) Here we are studying the psychologists who have doctoral degrees. Thus the population in target consist of all the psychologists with doctoral degrees.

The population size is 5,000.