This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Ugc Net > Paper 1 > Research Aptitude > Sampling Techniques – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Sampling Techniques Quiz 10 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 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. A) SRS. B) Convenience. C) Cluster. D) Systematic. E) Stratified. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) SRS. 2. This is a procedure on how to select the members of a sample. A) Sampling technique. B) Sampling. C) Sample. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sampling technique. 3. What kind of sample technique is the following:Survey every 8th customer who leaves your store. A) Convenience Sampling. B) Simple Random Sampling. C) Systematic Sampling. D) Sample. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Systematic Sampling. 4. Which of these pieces of equipment can be used to measure an abiotic factor? A) Light meter. B) Pitfall trap. C) Quadrat. D) Pooter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Light meter. 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? A) Stratified sampling. B) Volunteer sampling. C) Opportunity sampling. D) Random sampling. E) Systematic sampling. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Opportunity sampling. 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." A) Simple Random Sampling. B) Systematic Sampling. C) Stratified Sampling. D) Cluster Sampling. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Systematic Sampling. 7. If a researcher stopped people in the street and asked them to complete a questionnaire, What type of sampling would this be? A) Stratified sampling. B) Random sampling. C) Systematic sampling. D) Opportunity sampling. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Opportunity sampling. 8. What kind of sample technique is the following:Question 90 employees chosen at random. A) Convenience Sampling. B) Simple Random Sampling. C) Systematic Sampling. D) Sample. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simple Random Sampling. 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. A) Sampling. B) Census. C) Bias. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Census. 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. A) Systematic. B) Quota. C) Stratified. D) Simple. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quota. 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? A) Undercoverage. B) Leading questions. C) Social desirability. D) Non-response. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Social desirability. 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. A) Systematic. B) Simple Random. C) Stratified. D) Cluster. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simple Random. 13. You assign the students in your class a number and choose 6 numbers from a basket. What sampling method are you using? A) Convenience. B) Systematic. C) Simple Random. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simple Random. 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 A) Census only. B) Sample Survey only. C) Experiment only. D) Observational Study and Experimental. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Observational Study and Experimental. 15. Identify the sampling design:Student government randomly samples 25 students of each of the four classes (freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors). A) Stratified. B) Volunteer. C) Systematic. D) Simple random. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stratified. 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. A) Systematic. B) Convenience. C) Cluster. D) Stratified. E) SRS. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cluster. 17. Which question is biased? A) Do you prefer flip flops or sandals?. B) Should we be required to wear school uniforms?. C) Do you think a Wal-Mart should be built in town?. D) Do you prefer Taylor Swift or the scandalous Miley Cyrus?. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Do you prefer Taylor Swift or the scandalous Miley Cyrus?. 18. This type of sampling makes use of blocks or districts as a sampling frame in order to cut down a huge population size. A) Systematic. B) Stratified. C) Simple. D) Cluster. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cluster. 19. Which of the following is a piece of equipment that can be used to sample the ground invertebrates in a habitat? A) Light meter. B) Pitfall trap. C) Quadrat. D) PH meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pitfall trap. 20. A quadrat is used to find the ..... of an organism in an area A) Time. B) Volume. C) Frequency. D) Weight. E) Length. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Frequency. 21. This type of sampling subdivides the population into subpopulations. A) Systematic. B) Simple. C) Stratified. D) Cluster. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stratified. 22. Involves choosing the respondents of the study on the basis of pre-determined criteria set by the researcher A) PURPOSIVE SAMPLING. B) CLUSTER SAMPLING. C) SIMPLE RANDOM SAMPLING. D) STRATIFIED RANDOM SAMPLING. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) PURPOSIVE SAMPLING. 23. The purpose of selecting a sample using one of these techniques we are learning is ..... A) To save money. B) To make the conclusion more convincing. C) To create bias. D) To Eliminate bias. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To Eliminate bias. 24. It has sample intervals. A) Systematic. B) Quota. C) Stratified. D) Multistage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Systematic. 25. Identify the sampling design:Mr. Rhoades asks his roommate what his favorite TV show is A) Convenience. B) Stratified. C) Unbiased. D) Cluster. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Convenience. 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. A) 120. B) 450. C) 200. D) 400. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 400. 27. A car salesman records information about the cars he is selling.The colour of each car is ..... data A) Qualitative. B) Continuous. C) Discrete. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Qualitative. 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. A) Random sampling. B) Systematic sampling. C) Convenience sampling. D) Stratified sampling. E) Cluster sampling. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stratified sampling. 29. Mr Synowicki samples his class by selecting 5 girls and 7 boys. This type of sampling is called? A) Cluster. B) Systematic. C) Stratified. D) Simple. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stratified. 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? A) Simple Random Sampling. B) Systematic Sampling. C) Convenience Sampling. D) Biased Sample. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biased Sample. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesPaper 1 QuizzesUgc Net QuizzesSampling Techniques Quiz 1Sampling Techniques Quiz 2Sampling Techniques Quiz 3Sampling Techniques Quiz 4Sampling Techniques Quiz 5Sampling Techniques Quiz 6Sampling Techniques Quiz 7Sampling Techniques Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books