A Researcher Wants to Interview Members of the Junior Class

question 2

Multiple Choice

A researcher wants to interview members of the junior class in a local high school that are interested in attending______________ the local university in order to investigate their attitudes concerning the university's admissions policy. Although the researcher suspects that many of the juniors are interested in attending, the researcher cannot get a list of juniors but only has the names of the three students that have expressed their interest by writing to the admissions office. What sampling procedure should the researcher use to assemble a sample of adequate size?

• A) Simple random sampling
• B) Referred sampling
• C) Snowball sampling
• D) Convenience sampling
• E) Quota sampling

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Deductive Components

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Deductive

A logical process in which a conclusion is based on the concordance of multiple premises that are generally assumed to be true.

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