PSYC 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Convenience Sampling, Sampling Bias, Quota Sampling
15 Dec 2017
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Do the students who rated the prof on this website adequately represent all of the professor"s students? . The extent to which results of a study can be generalized to a larger population of interest. The entire set of people or products in which you are interested. The smaller set, taken from the population. Collecting data about every individual in the population. Researchers don"t need to study every member of a population. Instead, they study a sample, assuming that if the sample behaves a certain way, the population will do too. If the sample can generalize to the population, there is good external validity. In order to say a sample generalizes to a population, we have to decide the population we are interested in. Instead of the population as a whole, a study"s intended population is more limited (i. e. undergrad women) Coming from a population vs. representing that population population.
