POLSCI 3N06 Lecture Notes - Simple Random Sample, Sampling Frame, The Technique
23 Nov 2013
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Political science 3n06 2013 lecture 6a a sample of sampling. Social scientists are frequently interested in understanding things that are too large to study directly. You could ask each and every canadian, but this would prove to be a very cumbersome, expensive task. Sampling is the technique for consciously selecting who or what, amongst all the elements contained in the population of interest, that you will actually study. Who to survey, who to interview, who/what to observe. Probabilistic: quantitative research, getting a representative sample; the small sample has to resemble the larger; need to be able to conclude from the large to the small, random sampling it does not mean chaotic. There has to be a procedure to be followed. This is particularly common in quantitative research. However, even in qualitative research, if the goal is to generalize your findings to a larger group. Political science 3n06: probabilistic sampling is the best way to do this.
