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personality psychologist who is interested in studying the characteristics of people who report being abducted by UFOs. She finds several people in an online support group for UFO abductees to participate and asks them if they can provide the names and contact information of other people who have also been abducted. Upon contacting these new participants, she asks them to refer her to even more people they may know who have been abducted. This is an example of what kind of sampling

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Snowball sampling

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A snowball sampling technique is a type of sampling where the researcher gets other members to recruit participants for the study. Bringing this to thee question here, this psychologist after getting several people in the online support, asks them to refer her to other abductees that can be used as participants in her study

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