Question

You have decided to conduct an interview-based study on your campus that examines sexual assault with the hope of offering recommendations to the administration for policy changes. You have selected as your sample the members of all the campus fraternities, as this is a subpopulation of the entire campus and seems often to be at the center of the cases. Although this is an interesting approach, your results will likely be _______.

Answer 1

Answer:

- Limited in generalizability because of your sampling decision.

Explanation:

Effective research is highly determined by the appropriate selection of sources or samples as they assist in producing a notable, authentic, and rational conclusion.

In the given question, as per the given description; the results would most likely be 'restricted or finite in generalizability due to the inappropriate sampling decision'. The choice of 'members of campus fraternities' would not only influence the final judgment but rather manipulate or mislead it as these members possess loyalty and association towards the institution and therefore, their opinions would be shaped or influenced by these factors. A better sample choice for this would be 'the victims or sufferers' of the assaults or the witnesses who could better describe the actual situation.