For this discussion question, first go to this link and select an article: http://www.apa.org/news/psycport/. In your discussion post, address the following: 1. Provide a very bri

The importance of obtaining a representative sample from the population that researchers are interested in is extremely important. Briefly describe why representative samples are important and give at least two examples from politics where samples obtained by political polling have resulted in samples that were not representative of the population of voters, and thus led pollsters to make errors in predicting election outcomes.