Professor Hall Was Planning to Do a Field Study of Hitchhikers

question 15

Multiple Choice

Professor Hall was planning to do a field study of hitchhikers. Hall wanted to be sure that persons representing all different age, racial, and sex categories were included in the sample of hitchhikers. What kind of sampling scheme would you recommend?

• A)Deviant cases
• B)Quota sampling
• C)Stratified sampling
• D)Snowball sampling
• E)Cluster sampling

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