Question

Pretorius wanted to investigate widows as victims of financial exploitation. She began her study by locating a few such widows by means of an article focusing
on the problem of the financial exploitation of widows that appeared in a local suburban newspaper. She then asked each of these widows for the names of
other widows who were victims of financial exploitation that might be interested in being a part of her study. which sampling strategy did she use?
A. purposive
B. available subjects
C. snowball
D. quota
E. selecting informants

Answer 1

Based on the fact that Pretorius wanted the widows to identify other widows who were exploited, this is a C. Snowball sampling technique.

What is the snowball sampling technique?

This is a technique where those who are being studied are used to find other people to be studied because the original ones might know others in their situation.

The widows in this instance were used to find other widows who could have been exploited so this is snowball sampling.

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