Sampling

Question 1

What does homogenous refer to?

Answer 1

little differences among a sample group

Question 2

What does it mean to “snowball”?

Answer 2

to sample through social networking

Question 3

What does data saturation mean? Where would you find this?

Answer 3

refers to the point where data collection is repetitive. ONLY in QUALITATIVE studies

Question 4

The type of sampling that is similar to stratified sampling but is NON RANDOM is called….

Answer 4

QUOTA

Question 5

Explain random sampling

Answer 5

sampling strategy where each element has an equal change of being included

Question 6

What does stratified mean?

Answer 6

that the population is divided into homogenous subgroups

Question 7

What is systematic sampling?

Answer 7

a sampling method that uses a sampling interval, which is determined by dividing the population by the sample size

Question 8

What is a pilot study?

Answer 8

a small study conducted prior to a larger study