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Your research methods instructor asks you to distribute a survey on cheating to a random sample of college students. To save time, you go to the cafeteria and distribute the surveys among the students who are there. This sampling method is called ________ sampling.

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This sampling method is called small sized closed sampling.

Step-by-step explanation:

In every given research works to be carried out, there are various way of gathering data which would go a long way to help in either validating r not validating the hypothesis.

In a situation whereby the data to be gathered is carried out using a survey is one of the simpler approach. In the case of the instruction to distribute survey for data collection,

If I happen to distribute the survey in the cafeteria, this sampling method is called a small sized closed sampling unlike the the distribution to the college students which was wanted by the instructor initially.

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