1. What is the difference between a population and a sample?

is the entire group that you want to draw conclusion about A sample is the specific group that you will collect data from the size of the sample is always less than the total size of the population.

if you break down the data from the global footprint network, china exerts far more pressure on its ecosystems per capita than america in terms of crops, grazing, foresting, and fishing. but where america blows everybody out of the water is carbon emissions per capita