Chapter 5 How to choose your participants

The choice of sample size will depend on?

• Data reliability and the error that the study can

  accept

  .

• Some statistical techniques and overall size.

• All are correct

•  Overall size

How many types of sampling category?

• 2

• 1

• 4

• 3

Impossible to contact everyone in the research population, researchers select a number of people to contact, called ___

Continue using your chosen procedure such as snowballing or theoretical sampling until a ___ is reached

• Interesting point

• Geographical regions

• Emerging theory

• Saturation point

The company has offices in 10 cities across the country (all with roughly the same number of employees in similar roles). You don’t have the capacity to travel to every office to collect your data, so you use random sampling to select 3 offices 

• Simple Random Sampling

• Cluster sampling 

• Quasi-random sampling 

• Stratified random sampling 

Surveying a sample of consumers, from number 5 onwards, every 10^th consumers (5,15,25) may be selected from your sample. 

• Simple Random Sampling

• Quasi-random sampling

• Stratified random sampling 

   

• Cluster sampling 

____ samples are used if generalisation is not the goal

When to use probability sampling?

• When you want to reduce the sampling bias

• When the population is usually diverse

• To create an accurate sample

• All are correct

Which is not belong to probability sampling method?

• Haphazard sampling

• Systematic sampling

• Stratified Random sampling

• Cluster sampling