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¶ … Social Research Design Exercise 5.2 NAME: Simple Random Sample To complete this exercise, you'll need to have read about simple random sampling and how to use a table of random numbers (Babbie, pp. 220-222). Visit the website http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/. In the box titled "Popular Names by Birth Year," enter the year 1900, and select the Top 100 names, then click Go. You will see lists of the 100 most popular male and female names from people born in 1900.

From each of those two lists, select a simple random sample of five names, using the random number table as instructed on pages 220-222. Then describe the steps you took to create your samples. SAMPLE OF MALES' NAMES SELECTED: Benard Earl Theodore Herman Jessie SAMPLE OF FEMALES' NAMES SELECTED: Frances Anna Marie Ruth Ruby C. Describe what you did to generate these samples.

First, the researcher selected two sets of five random numbers (one set for male names and one set for female names) from the text (you probably want put your text name here). The numbers were: 86, 28, 61, 49, 69 for the male names and 26, three, nine, five, 51 for the female names. Next the researcher went to the website, http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames / which is a website produced by the United States Social Security system that displays the most popular baby names for any given year.

The researcher specified the birth year for the names as 1900 and then requested the top hundred names for both.