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A manufacturing company employs 14 project managers, 48 foremen, and 377 laborers. In an effort to...

A manufacturing company employs 14 project managers, 48 foremen, and 377 laborers. In an effort to keep informed about any possible source of employee discontent, management wants to conduct job satisfaction interviews with a sample of employees every month.

  1. Do you see any danger of bias in the company’s plan? Explain.
  2. Propose a sampling strategy that uses a simple random sample.
  3. Why do you think a simple random sample might not provide the representative opinion the union seeks.
  4. Propose a better sampling strategy.

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