Estimate the proportion of adult residents

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A political scientist wants to estimate the proportion of adult residents of a state who favor a unicameral legislature. What could be sampled? Also, discuss the relative merits of personal interviews, telephone interviews, and mailed questionnaires as methods of data collection.

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