All of the Following Statements Are True About Snowball Sampling

question 84

Multiple Choice

All of the following statements are true about snowball sampling except ________.

• A) snowball sampling results in relatively low sampling variance and costs
• B) the major advantage of snowball sampling is that it substantially increases the likelihood of locating the desired characteristics in the population
• C) snowball sampling can result in samples that are very large or spread over large geographic areas,thus increasing the time and cost of data collection
• D) a major objective of snowball sampling is to estimate characteristics that are rare in the population

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