RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

REPORTING AND THESIS WRITING

DETERMINING EXPERIMENTAL AND SAMPLE DESIGNS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A poll is taken from 100 seniors in a high school where the senior class has 575 students. This is an example of a ____
A
Sample
B
Population
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Subject to bias: Voluntary sampling is highly susceptible to bias, because researchers make little effort to control sample composition. The people who volunteer for the study may be very different than those who do not volunteer.

Detailed explanation-2: -Every possible group of units of the required size has the same chance of being the selected sample as any other sample of the same size. Q. This sample is selected by dividing the population into subgroups and then taking a fixed number of units from each group using the simple random sample.

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