1. The principal of the high school that you attended is interested in determining why some graduates are successful and others not. He commissions you to develop a plan for studying this question.

(a) What is your population?

(b) Discuss several ways for selecting a sample.

(c) How would you define "success"?

(d) If you do a mailing to graduates and receive questionnaires returned as "undeliverable," discuss the problems with excluding such people from your study.

(e) If you do a mail survey, how will you deal with people who do not return your form. That is, how will you deal with the problem of nonresponse?

(f) Comment on the strategy of distributing questionnaires at a class reunion.