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Interest Groups |
a group of people with common goals who organize to influence government. |
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Public-Interest groups |
a group that seeks policy goals that believes with benefit the nation. |
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Biased Sample |
in polling, a group that does not accurately represent the larger population. |
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Universe |
in polling, the group of people that are being studied. |
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Representative Sample |
a small group do people, typical of the universe, that a pollster questions. |
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Random Sampling |
a polling technique in which everyone in the "universe" has an equal chance of being selected. |
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Sampling Error |
a measurement of how much the sample results may differ from the sample universe. |
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Cluster Sample |
a polling method that groups people by graphical divisions. |
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Lobbying |
direct contact made by a lobbyist in order to persuade government official to support the polices their interest group favors. |
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Lobbyist |
interest groups representative. |
