What Is One Reason Why Convenience Sampling Is Sometimes Seen

question 54

Multiple Choice

What is one reason why convenience sampling is sometimes seen as an inferior approach to sampling?

• A) It often produces a sample that is too small.
• B) It often produces a sample that is too large.
• C) It tends to produce samples that are too homogeneous; the people in the sample are too similar to each other.
• D) It tends to produce samples that are too heterogeneous; the people in the sample are too different from each other.

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