As part of her summer job, martina was instructed to collect data from ten people to determine how they felt about a number of
political issues, including socialized medicine, food stamps, and educational vouchers. she asked her father, grandfather, mother, brother, two uncles, and four sorority sisters to answer the survey questions. marina used a ________ sample.
I believe the answer is <span>convenience sample </span><span>convenience sample refers to the sample that consists of the people that are easy to reach by the researcher. </span>The subjects of this type of sample often only consist of the people that are familiar with the researcher, such as family, co-worker, friends, etc.
Convenience sampling is a form of non-probabilistic sampling, it doesn't use statistical methods to choose the participants of the study, instead, the researcher selects the participants who are conveniently available for the study. Convenience sampling is often used in the exploration stage of the research, for example, when the researcher is designing the data collection instruments.
In this case, Marina used a convenience sample for her study because she asked the people that were close to her, some family members and a few friends.
