RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

METHODS OF DATA COLLECTION

CONCEPT OF SAMPLING AND OTHER CONCEPTS RELATED TO SAMPLING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which sampling is mostly affected from being bias?
A
lottery method
B
convenience sampling
C
snowball sampling
D
cluster sampling
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Convenience samples are quite prone to research bias. Since the researcher draws the sample based on convenience and not equal probability, convenience samples never result in a statistically balanced selection of the population. This leads to sampling bias.

Detailed explanation-2: -Exclusion Bias This bias results from excluding specific groups from your sample, such as the exclusion of subjects that have migrated recently into the study area. It is worth noting that excluding subjects or participants that move out of the relevant study area can affect your study’s validity.

Detailed explanation-3: -Studies that use convenience sampling should attempt to reduce selection bias and strengthen the study’s usefulness by controlling and assessing the representativeness of the survey sample. In other words, an attempt should be made to obtain a sample that is a miniature version of the population.

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