Suppose I was interested in a snapshot of the number of persons leaving a grocery store today to find out if they intended to vote today.  What type of sampling would be used? Now, suppose a study was conducted two weeks ago where a list of registered voters was available and a random sample of registered voters was selected to estimate the proportion of registered voters who intended to vote on November 3.  What type of sampling was used? Which results are "better?"  When answering this, indicate how you are interpreting the word "better."

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Suppose I was interested in a snapshot of the number of persons leaving a grocery store today to find out if they intended to vote today.  What type of sampling would be used?

Now, suppose a study was conducted two weeks ago where a list of registered voters was available and a random sample of registered voters was selected to estimate the proportion of registered voters who intended to vote on November 3.  What type of sampling was used?

Which results are "better?"  When answering this, indicate how you are interpreting the word "better."

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