Judgment

Question 1

Also known as selective, or subjective, sampling, this technique relies on the judgement of the researcher when choosing who to ask to participate.

Answer 1

Judgement (or Purposive) Sampling

Question 2

Researchers may implicitly choose inclusion-selection criteria as the basis in selecting the sample.

Answer 2

Judgement (or Purposive) Sampling

Question 3

This approach is often used by the media when canvassing the public for opinions and in qualitative research.

Answer 3

Judgement (or Purposive) Sampling

Question 4

has the advantage of being time-and cost-effective to perform while resulting in a range of responses.

Answer 4

Judgement (or Purposive) Sampling

Question 5

However, in addition to volunteer bias, it is also prone to errors of judgement by the researcher and the findings, being potentially broad, will not necessarily be representative.

Answer 5

Judgement (or Purposive) Sampling

Question 6

For example: In a study wherein, a researcher wants to know what it takes to graduate summa cum laude in college, the only people who can give the researcher firsthand advise are the individuals who graduated summa cum laude. With this very specific and very limited pool of individuals that can be considered as a subject, the researcher must use judgmental sampling

Answer 6

Judgement (or Purposive) Sampling