Question

A study is done to determine the average salary for all Santa Clara County teachers. If we were to randomly pick 15 schools in Santa Clara County and average together the salaries of all teachers, would this be a good sampling technique or a bad sampling technique

Answer 1

Good sampling technique

Explanation:

In other to determine the mean value for a population, it may be necessary to make inference from the a small subset of the population, called the sample, if it is impossible, difficult or inefficient to get all population data. Hence, in other to select a subset of the population, then the sample must be selected at random, such that all elements of the population have equal chances of being selected and hence, be representative of the population. Since, the sampling technique adopted above is done at random, hence, it is a good sampling technique.