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Question 10 unsaved to reach older adults in your community, you survey 500 randomly chosen people over age 65. the process of selecting participants is called:

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The correct answer is random selection.

Random selection refers to a process in which a sample or group of participants for a research study are randomly drawn from the entire population the researcher has access to. The main strength of using a random sample for a research study is that biases are avoided and the findings obtained are more representative of the population as a whole.
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