population and sample help? well just the sample part..

Question

jessicawade · Answer

A sociologist wants to know the opinions of students about online education. He obtains a list of 750 students who have completed an online course recently and mails a questionnaire to 100 of the students. The 100 recipients of the questionnaire were randomly selected. Only 41 of the questionnaire were returned. Clearly define the population and the sample in this study.

jessicawade · Answer

I know the population is the 750 students because that is ALL of them, but is teh sample the 41 who returned the paper or the 100?

michele_laino · Answer

I think that it is 41, since the statistical methods can be applied to the received questionnaires only!

michele_laino · Answer

please, try to ask to another helper, for a confirmation

jessicawade · Answer

thank you, I know this one is confusing lol

michele_laino · Answer

:)

jessicawade · Answer

@Luigi0210  I was told you ask you lol

luigi0210 · Answer

I would agree with @Michele_Laino , the sample is data that is collected, and they only collected 41 out of the 100.

jessicawade · Answer

ok! thanks for the help.