Question

A company is interested in producing self-stick decorative posters. It selects a representative sample of middle school students who currently have one or more standard posters on their walls. After interviewing them and collecting other relevant data, the firm then makes generalizations about What all middle school students want in their posters. The method used is

A) Convenience sampling
B) Stratified sampling
C) Snowball sampling
D) Cluster sampling

Answer 1

The sampling methods used are stratified sampling and convenience sampling.

Step-by-step explanation:

The type of sampling used in each scenario is as follows:

a. The soccer coach is using stratified sampling because they are selecting players from different age groups.

b. The pollster is using convenience sampling because they are interviewing human resource personnel from specific high tech companies.

c. The high school educational researcher is using stratified sampling because they are interviewing both female and male teachers separately.