FRHD 4200 Lecture Notes - Convenience Sampling, Social Desirability Bias

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 4200
• Professor: Corey Isaacs

Document Summary

Ethics, confidentiality, participant recruitment, taboo, stigma, bias, are the participants different on some inherent level that makes them willing to participate. Convenience sampling is much more common (recruitment in classes, as an example; ie bonus grade) Volunteer bias: who is participating in the study. Internal: cause and effect, are you testing what you believe you"re testing, External: ability to generalize the information you find to the overall population. Threats- attrition, small sample size, complexities of human behaviour means its almost impossible to determine a real cause and effect relationship, confounding variables, instrumentation, social desirability, Influence from the person implementing the survey/ interview. What are some advantages of internet data collection: quick, relatively easy, cost effective, Major issues identified by the author- cheap, bias sample (people who don"t have access to email/computer- limits the ability to generalize [example: not applicable to older adults in older age homes],