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A researcher investigating the consumption of sugar takes a random sample from the population and computes the mean sugar consumption. He repeats the procedure a number of times using the exact same procedure, and finds the means obtained vary from sample to sample. This is an example of:

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a. systematic error.

b. sampling error.

c. nonsampling error.

d. noncoverage error.

e. response error.

Answer: SAMPLING ERROR.

Explanation: Sampling error refers to an error that occurs as a result of observing a subset of a population instead of the whole population. It occurs when a researcher does not select a sample that represents the entire population of data. For example, the difference between a population mean and a sample mean is sampling error.

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