Question

Dr. Smith is instructing his graduate students to put together a sample for an upcoming research study of collegestudents. The graduate students were asked to stand outside of the student union to solicit participants, finding 50freshmen, 50 sophomore, 50 juniors, and 50 seniors. What sort of sampling method is being used? Quota sampling Cluster sampling Simple random sampling Accidental sampling Stratified sampling

Answer 1

Answer: Quota sampling

Explanation:

• Quota sampling is a sampling method of collecting participants from a group. It requires that characteristic individuals are chosen out of a particular subgroup.

Given : Dr. Smith is instructing his graduate students to put together a sample for an upcoming research study of college students.

The graduate students were asked to stand outside of the student union to solicit participants, finding 50 freshmen, 50 sophomore, 50 juniors, and 50 seniors.

Here, the characteristic individuals are chosen out of 4 specific subgroups.

Thus, the sampling method is used here is Quota sampling.