Sampling Activity Worksheet

Sampling Activity Worksheet – fill out sheet attached
Match the type of sampling strategy with the description of the method used in the studies.
Simple random sample
Systematic sampling
Stratified sampling
Cluster sampling
Convenience sampling
Purposive sampling

Scenario 1: Erins study on no pressure sales must use an intact group of participants, yet she wants to include random sampling, she created a list of car dealerships in her city that had no pressure sales programs. She randomly selected one of those dealerships. She then created a second list of all the sales people in that dealership who used no pressure sales techniques. She then randomly selected one of those sales people to be the sample of her study.
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Scenario 2: Mr. Walker has asked the central office for a list of the names of the 1,250 technicians in the company. He has selected a sample of 50 technicians by choosing every 25th technician on this list.
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Scenario 3: Mr. Bachman chose to conduct her study in a brokerage firm which is well known for its effectiveness to earn money for their clients measured by very high profit reports.
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Scenario 4: Mrs. Meyers international business program has 100 managers. She wants to obtain information from the managers regarding the workload policies of the program. Therefore, Mrs. Meyer emailed surveys to 20 managers in the program whose names she drew from a hat that contained all 100 names.
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Scenario 5: Paul was requested by his dissertation committee to select his sample so that it contained 10 engineers, 10 technicians, 10 engineering interns, and 10 technician interns. Therefore, he gathered a list of names of 30 such staff in the district who belonged to each group, and then randomly selected 10 from each group.
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Scenario 6: For a class project, Madeline, business doctoral student, has decided to conduct a survey on whether her classmates believe that doing discussion forum activities is an effective approach to understanding course content. She asked her friends in the business program to help her complete her project by taking her survey.
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