Fill in the blank Some friends of yours in a political scien

Fill in the blank. Some friends of yours in a political science class are angry about a new town ordinance restricting off-campus parties. They make an online survey asking students^? opinions. This type of sampling might be classified as a ___________ sample. Some friends of yours in a political science class are angry about a new town ordinance restricting off-campus parties. They make an online survey asking students^? opinions. This type of sampling might be classified as a sample. convenience stratified simple random cluster

Solution

This is an example of conenience sampling.

The sample is chosen as per convenience.

All the students may not be equally willing to participate in the (online) survey, or they may not have equal access to resources for participating in the survey. Thus, this method does not help make inferences about all the students (esp, about those who are unwilling, lack access to resources or were not aware).

It is quite possible that those who wanted the ordinancee to be withdrawn participated in large numbers (i.e., with high probability) and those who had no objection did not bother to participate in the survey.