GEOG 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Free Trade, North American Free Trade Agreement
27 Apr 2016
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Lecture 8 urban transect project of montreal (continued) and. Winnipeg (from lecture 4) field technique: treating metro stations as sample points. Each of these stands in for a much larger area. A representative sample: develop a sampling technique. A systematic procedure one uses in the field to avoid bias subjective judgments vs. objective judgments. Ethics protocols for research involving people test out sampling technique before going out in the field: sampling. Decide how you are going to sample area at the metro stop you select systematic justify your selection because you have good reason to think that the location of the stations represent the entire line. Use this for deciding which metro stops to use: divide into segments: western, eastern, middle then pick random randomly. Eg. rolling a die, flipping a coin, using a random number generator. Ensures that personal bias does not enter sample: avoid effect of metro station itself.
