1) Samples Flashcards

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Opportunity Sample Evaluation

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.Available at the time
+ Quick and easy / saves time and money
- Bias and not generalisable of entire population

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Self Selected Evaluation

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. Asks for volunteers
+ Participants are willing = increases validity as they will want to complete it properly
- Atypical = volunteer bias and likely to be keen and act more helpful than normal ppl

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Random Evaluation

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.Every member has an equal chance of being selected
+No bias = more representative
- Time consuming

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Systematic Evaluation

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.Selects every nth person
+ Low bias as it uses objective system = more representative
- Not completely unbiased unless you use a random number generator = less representative

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Snowball Evacuation

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.current participants recruit more participants from ppl they know
+good for locating groups that are hard to access = more representative if large sample is gained
-likely to not be good cross section as its friends of friends

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