Question

A university is proposing a new procedure for professors to gain tenure. To gauge sentiment about the proposal, the university intends to randomly sample five professors, five assistant professors, five associate professors, five adjunct professors, and five visiting professors. This is an example of what type of sampling design

Answer 1

The correct answer is:

stratified sampling

Explanation:

Stratified sampling is a type of sampling method where the population to be sampled is divided into subgroups or strata and then random selection is made, and these strata are formed based on some shared common characteristics. In this example, the population to be sampled is a population of professors, but the researcher went further to divide this group into professors, assistant professors, associate professors, adjunct professors, and visiting profesors.