Question

A social media research study sets out to determine the attitudes and characteristics of Xbox gamers, so they select the gaming sites of GamesForum and Gaming Bay to define Xbox gamers. The gamers in this example represent which of the following?

A) Population.
B) Sample.
C) Census.
D) Sample frame.
E) Research design.

Answer 1

Answer:

Option A, Population

Explanation:

A research population is a well-defined collection of individuals or objects that have desired similar characteristics or trait.  

Populations represent a set of data from which few observations are drawn to constitute a sample group

For example – a set of students in a college, group of old age people in a ward etc.  

Here in this case, gamers constitute the experimental population group  

Option A is correct

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