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Sampling and Sampling Techniques
Sampling and Sampling Techniques
4. A sociologist conducts an opinion survey in a major 3) Kwame is interested in the number of goals that
city. Part of the research plan calls for describing different players score in the different football leagues.
and comparing the opinions of four different ethnic He checks the Wikipedia pages of each player to try and
groups: African Americans, Asian Americans, find out the values.
European Americans, and Native Americans. For a
total sample of 300, the researcher selects 75 4) Alex wants to know about whether the school lunches
participants from each of the four predetermined provide good value for money. She asks a sample of
subgroups. pupils in the lunch hall how much they paid for their
5. A researcher is interested in political attitudes of meal.
individuals within a particular state. The researcher
5) Conor wants to find out about the history of Second
uses the following procedure to obtain a sample: (a)
World War. One of the things he does is look up online
a random sample of counties is drawn, (b) within the
the number of people who died from each of the
countries who fought in the war.
b. Margin of error is 5% .