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Sherese Marie Clark
Sherese Marie Clark
statistically accurate?
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Why random selection is necessary for sampling to be effective and
statistically accurate?
about the police in the area. They are asking about their routines, and if they are
patrolling the area as often as necessary. One year they asked us if the police
officers were communicating with the citizens in the neighborhoods. This is all
Many surveys that we encounter are not seeking for information to better
the society, or give out helpful information. But they are some times trying to sale
products or receive some sort of contribution to sponsor an event or cause. But for
what ever the reason the researcher decides to sample, there is one question that
cross many people’s minds! This question is how accurate is the data? There are
many forms of sampling, and many researchers choose to use the non-probability
sampling method.
does not mean that this method is not respected by researchers, but it may not
other researchers that may follow. This method is quicker than random sampling,
but not as accurate. This method was adopted by many researchers because they
Random selection minimizes what is known as bias selection. This is a term used
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Why random selection is necessary for sampling to be effective and
statistically accurate?
to describing an error that may occur when choosing the individuals or groups
resulting from a method that is used to collect samples. If the selection bias is not
taken into account then any conclusions drawn may be fabercated. This would
then prohibit the researcher from presenting the found information to a larger
group or population. But if the researcher use statistically derived samplimg, this
would insure that the survey results can be defended. The information needs to be
as accurate as possible, so that another researcher may come behind them and
selection, this may produce results that lead to misguided market research,
random selection, the researcheer must first form a process or procedure that will
assure that the different groups in the population will have an equal probability of
being selected. This can be done by using what is called, stratified random
sampling. There are many sampling methods that have been used to present
surveys.
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Why random selection is necessary for sampling to be effective and
statistically accurate?
subgroups. After you divid the popultaion into groups, the researcher will take
simple random sampling in each group (cite). This can be done by dividing the
population into non overlapping groups. After this is done, the researcher will do
It has been said that random sampling is very important when it comes to
shown through survey reports. These methods are developed or formed, so that
the researchers work can be defended. Any survey that is performed and did not
randomly select their respondents is more likely to produce results that do not