Cheryl is interviewing a representative sample of attendees for the large concert venue that she works in. There are 200 live concerts featuring all types of musicians and musical groups. The number of attendees and their descriptive characteristics are not known in advance; therefore, it is determined to use nonprobability sampling. Based on previous concerts, the number of tickets available is determined and, therefore, the number of possible attendees for each type of music can be determined. By using data from attendance research conducted in the past two years from Glacier Symphony, gender data can be determined based on the type of music. To determine the most reliable method for interviews, the type of nonprobability sampling must …show more content…
This sampling would require that the sampling is relevant to the topic that we are trying to research and that there is an identifiable distribution among the population being interviewed. This would be required if you were to sample males versus females, one would have to be sure to determine the exact distribution level. It would be important to ensure that it was calculated that there were 45 males and 50 females and that information would have to be evaluated based on those measures rather than an equal amount of each. This could also be said if one were to interview different religious groups. If you were going to interview several different religious groups, it would be imperative to ensure that you have allowed all the numbers of the groupings that you have done.
The snowball method would be done once the interviewees went through referrals. If one were to interview a lady by random and then she told them to go interview her friends, etc. that would be snowball sampling. This method would not be effective when doing this particular interview as one would almost certainly guarantee skewed information, as a group of friends is likely to have the same answer when being asked about something that they have all attended
What impact did WW1 have on Canada? World War One had a major impact on Canada's society. Throughout the war women were giving the right to vote and work , the country became increasingly in debt, relationships between the english and french canadians were wrecked and millions of Canadians went to and died at war.
According to Schutt (2008), sampling is defined as a subset of population used in a study to be a representation of the population as a whole. My final project is a pre-hire assessment which analyzes potential risky pattern behaviors and emotions in the work place. One of the most important considerations related to sampling that will need to be addressed in my final project is defining the population that will be taking the assessment.
The researchers used purposive sample but did not give any explanation as to why this choice sampling was made. It is essential to describe the sampling process in a research where this facilitates the reader to distinguish any bias in the whole sampling process. In studies using participants, the process of how to select, access, inform and retain research participants requires considerable thought. Sampling is a key issue, because it is
In terms of choosing my sampling method, I chose quota sampling. This is because we chose to survey 30 people in total but divide the group into genders; males and females. Therefore; 15 males and 15 females were surveyed. This was an important sampling method to choose because it was quite accurate. It was less biased as we decided to interview both genders, leading to varied results for our market research team. We also chose to have quota sampling, because it was the most efficient sampling method which gave us the most accurate information we set out to find. I feel it was important to have more than one division; that being males and females. This is purely because males and females have much diverse views and opinions and also priorities such as; males being more interested in booking rooms and assessing the online services, where the females would also enjoy the online services, but would show more interest in the facilities available, therefore it was quite key to find out how each gender progressed through the surveys. I feel that quota sampling is much more accurate than other sampling methods such as random sampling. This is because random sampling will leave the researchers with a range of results, which will be harder to compare or formulate decisions
It’s also not easy to have an accurate quota frame because of the unavailability on current information. You could divide the population in groups but this means extending sampling requirements and bringing in more groups. This would cost money as well take time when the current method itself takes a lot of time.
Alfonso Gonzales provides a riveting and detailed work of Latino migrant politics and the homeland security state. Migration control date back to the mid-20th century. The author presents the actions taken by “pro-immigrant” groups to counter the hegemonic institutions that criminalize our communities. The book draws on political theory and field research with numerous activists, deportees, and policy makers across the country ranging from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. and abroad (Mexico and El Salvador). Gonzales argues that Latinos face a multidimensional form of political power he coins “anti-migrant hegemony,” that secures a legitimization for state violence against migrants through a race-neutral dialog regarding crime and combating terrorism. Gonzales presents an array of agents that have a stake in migrant politics and the Homeland Security State. The book ends with discussing how Latino migrant activists and their allies could change the contemporary reality faced by millions of Latinos living in the shadows and ultimately help democratize the United States.
f) The name of each contestant is written on a separate card, and the cards are placed in a bag with three names being picked from the bag. What type of sample is this and why? Each member of the contestant population has an equal chance of being picked from the bag (Bennett, Briggis, & Triola, 2009). This is a simple random sampling.
Paula England wanted to understand what the hooking up culture and sexuality was of college students and how it was gender based. This was her focus for her research and throughout her data she found some interesting things about the hookup culture of college students. A sample is a part of the population that represents the whole. Her sample size was 18 different universities where she gathered data, and could make inferences about the population of college students as a whole. There were two different sampling methods that were used to gather data from students, she had students use interviews and online surveys.
Luker describes sampling through canonical social science research as a “systemic random probability sample”, with the goal of producing results that can then be apply and a general way. For example, with a research question that focuses on voting in a election, A canonical social science research question may trying to determine how many voters are expected to vote a certain way in a election. By using randomly sampling a certain number of voters could be surveyed the result can provide a general description of the voting trend of an entire populations with similar characteristic as the sample group. While I agree with Luker that sampling is important to both canonical qualitative and qualitative social science research, in the case of qualitative research, the word has different meaning.
Each of 30 interviewers was asked to recruit 14 subjects (convenience sample of 7 males and 7 females aged between 18 and 80 years old)
Working as a Juvenile Supervision Officer for the Fort Bend County Juvenile Probation Department, I come in contact with a lot of juvenile offenders. What I have notice during my tenure is that the majority of the juveniles I see are minorities, African- American, Hispanic and Asian young men and women. According to The Sentencing Project, “In 2010, African Americans comprised 17 percent of all juveniles, but 31 percent of all arrests.” Do juveniles of color commit crimes and come in contact with authorities more often than white juveniles?
A sample is a group of people chosen from a population to embody the population in the experiment, whereas a population is the complete group of the people that pertain to the research subject (Gravetter & Wallnau, 2014). An example of this would be if a researcher was doing a study on children with no siblings in Michigan, the population would be every only child and the sample would be a smaller group of only children to represent the larger group. The reason why a person would not use the entire population is because, although you would get a more accurate result, it also would be too difficult to attain an answer from every only child on Michigan. It is therefore easier to get an estimate to gauge the closest accuracy with a smaller sample set.
For my sample, I will be doing a convenience sample. My survey will be open to any age but will mainly focus on young college students. I will reach out to my class at a local university. There are approximately 30 students in the Criminal Justice Basic Statistics and Research course. I plan to have all the 30 students participate in this survey. Once I implement my
When researchers select participants from several different parts of the population, they are selecting a
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