234k views
2 votes
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.

User Robin Pyon
by
5.1k points

1 Answer

3 votes

Answer:

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.

User Spawnia
by
5.4k points