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Question 1081737: A school wants to survey parents about the amount of nightly homework their children are assigned. Which survey method will result in the best random sample for the population?

Answer by Boreal(15235) About Me  (Show Source):
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Variety of ways to do this with a list of parents.
One could do a systematic sample. There wouldn't appear to be a bias with this.
One could assign numbers to each student and use a random number table.
One could do it alphabetically, but that risks some bias.