Sampling Techniques Quiz 10 (30 MCQs)

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1. Identify the sampling technique used in the following study:In an effort to identify whether an advertising campaign has been effective, a marketing firm conducts a nationwide poll by randomly selecting individuals from a list of known users of the product.
2. This is a procedure on how to select the members of a sample.
3. What kind of sample technique is the following:Survey every 8th customer who leaves your store.
4. Which of these pieces of equipment can be used to measure an abiotic factor?
5. A researcher goes into a local cafe and asks the first 10 people they meet to take part in their study. Which sampling technique did they use?
6. Identify the type of sampling technique"A researcher is doing a research work on the student's reaction to the newly implemented curriculum in mathematics and interviewed every 10th student entering the gate of the school."
7. If a researcher stopped people in the street and asked them to complete a questionnaire, What type of sampling would this be?
8. What kind of sample technique is the following:Question 90 employees chosen at random.
9. When one examines the entire population instead of a subgroup of the population, this is called a ..... This is what is happening in the US this year, 2020.
10. Mrs. Cameron samples her class by splitting the class into two groups, boys and girls and then she picks 3 boys and 3 girls closest to her.
11. Identify the bias:You want to do a study on whether or not the average student at Strasburg experiences too much stress. You decide you want to conduct a face-to-face survey during lunch asking 35 students in line during each lunch. Which type of bias would be most prominent?
12. Mrs. Trahan samples her class by assigning a number to all 35 students, then randomly selecting five students using a random number generator. This is ..... sampling.
13. You assign the students in your class a number and choose 6 numbers from a basket. What sampling method are you using?
14. Decide if computer games are more effective than paper and pencil drills for children learning the multiplication tables. What type of a study is this possible with
15. Identify the sampling design:Student government randomly samples 25 students of each of the four classes (freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors).
16. Identify the sampling technique used in the following study:A farmer divides his orchard into 50 subsections, randomly selects 4 and samples all of the trees within the 4 subsections in order to approximate the yield of his orchard.
17. Which question is biased?
18. This type of sampling makes use of blocks or districts as a sampling frame in order to cut down a huge population size.
19. Which of the following is a piece of equipment that can be used to sample the ground invertebrates in a habitat?
20. A quadrat is used to find the ..... of an organism in an area
21. This type of sampling subdivides the population into subpopulations.
22. Involves choosing the respondents of the study on the basis of pre-determined criteria set by the researcher
23. The purpose of selecting a sample using one of these techniques we are learning is .....
24. It has sample intervals.
25. Identify the sampling design:Mr. Rhoades asks his roommate what his favorite TV show is
26. There are N beads in a jar.40 of these beads are black.Julie takes at random a sample of 50 beads from the jar.5 of the beads in her sample are black.Work out an estimate for the value of N.
27. A car salesman records information about the cars he is selling.The colour of each car is ..... data
28. The President of GHC wants to know the average salary of tenured faculty for all the colleges in the University System of Georgia. Fifty tenured faculty from each University System of Georgia college is randomly selected and interviewed.
29. Mr Synowicki samples his class by selecting 5 girls and 7 boys. This type of sampling is called?
30. A student wants to see the average number of hours teenagers exercise each week and asks the girls on the Football team and Tennis team. What is this an example of?