What Is the Biggest Disadvantage of Convenience Sampling

question 67

Multiple Choice

What is the biggest disadvantage of convenience sampling?

• A) Recruiting participants is difficult.
• B) It is cost prohibitive, because you have to pay participants.
• C) It is difficult to generalize conclusions to the population based on this type of sample.
• D) It is time consuming to find the diversity of participants needed for this type of sampling.

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Definitions:

Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Test

A statistical test used to determine whether a set of observed frequencies differ from a set of expected frequencies.

Expected Frequencies

The theoretically predicted counts of occurrences across different categories in a contingency table, used in chi-squared tests.

Chi-Square Distribution

A statistical distribution used to assess the goodness-of-fit between observed and expected frequencies.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent pieces of information available to estimate another parameter.