A question posted on a gaming website asked visitors to this

A question posted on a gaming website asked visitors to this site, \"Do you have an active social life outside the internet?\" 22% of the 55,581 respondents said \"no\" or \"not really, most of my personal contact is through social media.\"

Identify the following items of this survey research. If you feel an item is not identifiable then report your answers for that item as \"not identifiable from the information given\".

a) the population

b) the population parameter of interest

c) the sampling frame

d) the sample

e) the sampling method, including whether or not randomization was employed

f) who (if anyone) was left out of the study

g) any potential sources of bias and any problems you see in generalizing to the population of interest (this is your answer to question 2a)

Solution

a) Whole people in the world

b) Persons who use internet

c) Convenient sampling

d) Internet users who visit the site

e) Convenience smapling.

Randomisation was not employed\'

f) Persons who do not visit site but who have social life outside internet

g) Persons who visit the site alone may not represent the whole population without bias.