Concept Of Sampling And Other Concepts Related To Sampling Quiz 3 (27 MCQs)

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1. Which of the following methods of sampling is not random?
2. Method of deriving a sample
3. A portion of a population
4. The extent to which the findings from a study could be applied to a different context (e.g. other people, places or situations).
5. A pollster wants to find out if citizens are satisfied with the city council. Which procedure would bemost appropriate for obtaining a statistically unbiased sample?
6. What is an opportunity sample?
7. Indicate a suitable type of research design for the following research project:Research Project: "What kind of emotions and attitudes motivate individuals to take part in mass events?"
8. Sampling bias results in a sample that is not .....
9. A type of research method that involves using multiple methods to gather lots of data on a small group or individual.
10. Which of the following is a form of nonrandom sampling?
11. Members of the population do not have the equal chance of being selected.
12. To obtain a sample of voters from a town, 20 voters are selected from each barangay.
13. A researcher wants to understand student's study habits across the state. However, she lives in a rural area and decides to use the local middle school instead of schools across the state. What kind of sampling is this?
14. In systematic sampling, the formula N/n is used where N stands for .....
15. A set of observations that constitute PART of the population.
16. The selection of the sample is accomplished in more than 2 steps
17. A sampling where every member of the population has an equal chance of being selected. Your sampling frame should include the whole population.
18. A researcher who is studying the effects of educational attainment on promotion conducted a survey of 50 randomly selected workers from each of these categories:high school graduate, with undergraduate degree, with master's degree, and with doctoral degree. What technique is most appropriate?
19. What is a systematic sample?
20. A researcher identifies professional athletes as a group of interest to test her research hypothesis. She then identifies a few local professional teams and selects a small group of the local athletes to be observed. In this example, who is the target population?
21. Identify the type of sampling technique"A researcher who is studying the effects of educational attainment on promotion conducted a survey of 50 randomly selected workers from each of these categories:high school graduate, with undergraduate degrees, with master's degree, and with doctoral degree."
22. In an observational study, a researcher observes the types of shoes that every fifth person is wearing as he or she leaves a mall.
23. In this type of sampling, samples can be used to recruit participants via other participants
24. A study that tests the effects of some kind of treatment on a dependent variable, but one or more characteristics of a true experiment can't be met, since the IV is pre-existing.
25. When the participants' expectations have an effect on the results of the study.
26. A college president wants to find out which courses students consider to be of the most benefit tothem. Which procedure would be most likely to produce a statistically unbiased sample?
27. In an organization of 500 employees, the HR team decides on conducting team building activities, they prefer picking chits out of a bowl. In this case, each of the 500 employees has an equal opportunity of being selected.