Identify the sampling techniques used, and discuss potential sources of bias (if
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Question
Identify the sampling techniques used, and discuss potential sources of bias (if any). Explain. Assume the population of interest is the student body at a university. Questioning students as they leave an athletic facility, a researcher asks 363 students about their eating habits. What type of sampling is used? A. Convenience sampling is used, because students are chosen due to convenience of location. B. Systematic sampling is used, because students are selected from a list, with a fixed interval between students on the list. C. Stratified sampling is used, because students are divided into groups, and students are chosen at random from these groups. D. Cluster sampling is used, because students are divided into groups, groups are chosen at random, and every student in one of those groups is sampled. E. Simple random sampling is used, because students are chosen at random.
Explanation / Answer
option A is correct Conveniewnce sampling .
A convenience sample is made up of people who are easy to reach. here the researcher is researching on the eating habbits of student. so what better place tham outside the athlitic facility of the university where scores of students would be quite willing to be a pat of his/her research , as the research is related to health an fitness.
hence A convenience sample would be correct.