Question 2.19

2.19 Is this an SRS? A university has 30,000 undergraduate and 10,000 graduate students. A survey of student opinion concerning health care benefits for domestic partners of students selects 300 of the 30,000 undergraduate students at random and then separately selects 100 of the 10,000 graduate students at random. The 400 students chosen make up the sample.

  1. (a) Explain why this sampling method gives each student an equal chance to be chosen.

  2. (b) Nonetheless, this is not an SRS. Why not?