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What is systematic sampling?

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Selecting every nth person from a list of all the people in the target population.

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What are advantages and disadvantages of systematic sampling?

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Advantage - avoids researcher bias. Researcher has no say over who is selected.

Disadvantage - may still be biased. Sample may consist of one particular group of people. Decreases representativeness.

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Correlations

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Positive - dots go up
Negative - dots go down
Zero - dots are random

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