You Need a Sample of Twenty-Five Students to Interview for a Study

question 63

Multiple Choice

You need a sample of twenty-five students to interview for a study of attitudes toward intercollegiate athletics, and so you interview the first twenty-five students to enter the campus center on a Monday morning. What kind of sample is this?

• A) convenience sample
• B) purposive sample
• C) snowball sample
• D) simple random sample

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Duration

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Reinforcer

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Intervention

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