Snowball Sampling - The Sociology Quiz
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| Total Attempts: 217
In sociology and statistics research, snowball sampling is a nonprobability sampling technique where existing study subjects recruit future subjects from among their acquaintances. Thus the sample group is said to grow like a rolling snowball. This is a Snowball Sampling about The Sociology Quiz!
Questions and Answers
- 1.What do researchers use to represent a friendship network?
- A.
Pictograph
- B.
Sociogram
- C.
Histogram
- D.
Genogram
- 2.Snowball sampling is a single-step method.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.Select reasons why a researcher may stop their research when using snowball sampling. Check all that apply
- A.
No new people are identified
- B.
The limits of the study are reached
- C.
A closed group is identified
- 4.Snowball sampling is also known as a ____________ or network sampling.
- 5.Which are criticisms of snowball sampling?
- A.
Costly and complex in traditional forms
- B.
Selection bias
- C.
Sampling error
- D.
Limited to easy to access populations
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