Different Types of Sampling

Identify the type of sample.    A sports writer wants to determine whether baseball coaches think wooden bats should be mandatory in collegiate baseball.  The sportswriter mails surveys to all collegiate coaches and uses the surveys that are returned. 

• Systemic Sample

• Self-selected Sample

• Stratified Sample

• Cluster Sample

• Convenience Sample

Identify the type of sample.   

You want to find out whether booth holders at a convention were pleased with their booth locations.  You divide the convention center into six sections and survey every booth holder in the fifth section. 

• Systemic Sample

• Random Sample

• Stratified Sample

• Cluster Sample

• Convenience Sample

Identify the type of sample.   

A school wants to know whether high school teachers prefer before-school or after-school faculty meetings.  Ten teachers with classrooms near the front office are surveyed. 

• Systemic Sample

• Random Sample

• Stratified Sample

• Cluster Sample

• Convenience Sample

Identify the type of sample.    An amphitheater wants to know if Saturday morning concerts would be attended.  The amphitheater is divided into 30 different seating areas.  It surveys all the members in five randomly selected seating areas.

• Systemic Sample

• Random Sample

• Stratified Sample

• Cluster Sample

• Convenience Sample

Identify the type of sample. The principal asks students at one lunch table able the quality of food served in the school’s cafeteria.

• Self-selected Sample

• Random Sample

• Stratified Sample

• Cluster Sample

• Convenience Sample

The author of the statistical study was an observer at a police sobriety checkpoint at which every 5th driver was stopped and interviewed. Which sampling type is this?

• random

• systematic

• convenience

• stratified

• cluster

A researcher for the Spaulding athletic equipment company is studying the relationship between the level of education and participation in any sport. She conducts a survey of 40 randomly selected golfers, 40 randomly selected tennis players and 40 randomly selected swimmers. Which sampling type is this?

• random

• systematic

• convenience

• stratified

• cluster

Motivated by a student who died from binge drinking, the College of Newport conducts a study of student drinking by randomly selecting 10 different classes and interviewing all of the students in each of those classes. Which sampling type is this?

• random

• systematic

• convenience

• stratified

• cluster

Fund-raisers for the local college test a new telemarketing campaign by obtaining a list of all alumni and selecting every 100th name on that list. Which sampling type is this?

• random

• systematic

• convenience

• stratified

• cluster

A sample is taken of New World Supermarket Employees by loading all their names into a random name generator then having it randomly generate 30 names. This is...

• Simple Random Sampling

• Systematic 

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• Cluster

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• Stratified 

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