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1 If we took the 500 people attending a school in New York City, divided them by gender, and then took a random sample of the males and a random sampling of the females, the variable on which we would divide the population is called the ........ 2 Greg Beck of Quality Market Research tells placement student John to go out and select for personal interview ten men and ten women. Greg is using ........ sampling for this phase of the research. 3 The idea that when selecting between two different theories with equal explanatory value, one should select the theory that is the most simple, concise, and succinct is known as ........ 4 A set of principles to guide and assist researchers in deciding which goals are most important and in reconciling conflicting values when conducting research is called ........ 5 ........ is the set of procedures used to explain or predict the values of a dependent variable based on the values of one or more independent variables.