Exam 5: Sampling

If you complete a survey in a magazine entitled "What Do You Think About the Death Penalty for Teenagers? and mail it in to the publisher, you have participated in survey research

The most important distinction made about samples is whether they are based on a _ or ___ sampling method

A random number table simplifies the process of choosing cases on the basis of

The cases about which measures actually are obtained in a sample are known as units of observation.

A common nonprobability sampling method is

Because multistage cluster sampling requires less prior information about size of strata in the population it may be useful when

When a conclusion based on a sample of a larger population holds true for that population is known as

When a sequence of elements in a list to be sampled varies in some regular, periodic fashion it is affected by

What are the circumstances that make sampling unnecessary? Why are those circumstances rare?

What is the relationship between the desired sample, the obtained sample, the sampling frame, and sample quality?

In availability sampling, elements are selected

A researcher who draws conclusions about individual-level processes from group-level data is constructing

In_ sampling, elements are selected often due to their unique position in a population.

The individual entities of the population whose characteristics are to be measured are the

Reductionism is an error in reasoning that occurs when incorrect conclusions about group-level processes are based on individual level data.

The sampling method where elements are selected from strata in exact proportion to their representation in the population is

The quality of a sample cannot be evaluated if it is unclear what population it is supposed to represent.

A variant of simple random sampling is where you would select the first element randomly, then

The list of all elements of a population from which a sample is actually selected is known as the

When the researcher can show that findings about one group holds true for another group, it has cross-population generalizability.