SOCY 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Statistic, Quota Sampling, Snowball Sampling
31 Mar 2014
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Popular views of sampling: sampling invites a variety of views, many people doubt the reality of sampling methods. ** when people say that sampling doesn"t work tell them that we believe in blood work and that is a sample. If you don"t take samples it would not be cost effective or resource effective. Statistical inference : conceptual: need to know if the value is a good estimate of the sample. Sample selected on the basis of your own knowledge of the population you intend to study and your research question. Useful when studying a small subset of a larger population, where members of the subpopulation are easily identified focusing in on certain amount of people. Snowball sampling: already recruited respondents provide the researcher with assistance in locating other members of the population under study useful when members of a population are particularly hard to locate ex.
