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A researcher studying pay satisfaction divided the employees into different groups based on whether they were or were not members of the union, and which product line they worked in, and then randomly selected employees from each group to complete a pay satisfaction survey. What research method was this researcher using?
1. a laboratory study
2. a time-series design with one measurement
3. stratified random sample
4. simple random sample