Position B: Nonprobability (or purposive) sampling represents the best strategy
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Question
Position B: Nonprobability (or purposive) sampling represents the best strategy for selecting research participants.
Post a restatement of your assigned position on sampling strategies using subtitles, following attached rubrics and extra attachments.
1. Defend your position with examples and support from the scholarly literature.
2. Select a data collection method and briefly explain its strengths and limitations.
3. Identify a potential ethical issue with this method and describe a strategy to address it.
4. Last, explain the relationship between measurement reliability and measurement validity using an example from your discipline.
Be sure to support your Main Issue Post and Response Post with reference to the week’s Learning Resources and other scholarly evidence in APA Style.
Explanation / Answer
1. Non probability sampling is of great importance if you have to study the trends in a particular population, for instance exam stress amongst university students.
2. Qouta sampling, wherein one takes sections within the chosen society, stratified them, and selects quotas from within it. This method is good to have selection of the sample population one wishes to have.
3. Within this, there is a high possibility that the data collectors have a lapse in jusdgement with respect to the qouta they wish to include which can lead to an ethical dilemma
4. Measurement reliability is the consistency in results after retesting and measurement validity is when the varibale corresponds and is congruent with the actual world based on probability.
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