Definitions
This type of sampling involves selecting participants in such a way that every member of the population has an equal chance of being chosen.
What is simple random sampling?
This term refers to the entire group being studied.
What is the population?
This sampling method involves selecting every "nth" person from a list.
What is systematic sampling?
You randomly select students from each grade level to participate in a survey. What is this type of sampling?
What is fair?
This type of sampling might only include people who are easy to reach.
What is convenience sampling?
This term refers to a smaller group selected from the population for study.
What is a sample?
This type of sampling involves selecting participants based on convenience or ease of access.
What is convenience sampling?
You only survey students from your class about their favourite subject. What is this type of sampling?
What is biased?
Researchers Manipulate something and measure the effect of the manipulation on some outcome of interest.
When a sample accurately represents the population, it is considered this.
What is fair sampling?
The process of selecting a sample from the population is called this.
What is sampling?
This type of sampling involves selecting participants in such a way that every member of the population has an equal chance of being chosen.
What is simple random sampling?
You divide the school into groups based on grade and then randomly select students from each group. What is this type of sampling?
What is fair?
Means of obtaining information from a population or a sample of a population
What is a survey?
If a survey only includes students from one class, it is considered this.
What is biased sampling?
If you survey 50 students out of 500, the 50 students are called this,
What is a sample?
This type of sampling method involves dividing the population into subgroups and selecting a sample from each subgroup.
What is stratified sampling?
you survey only the students who are in the cafeteria at lunchtime. What is this type of sampling?
What is biased?
A study investigated whether boys are quicker at learning video games than girls. Twenty randomly selected boys and twenty randomly selected girls played a video game that they had never played before. The time it took them to reach a certain level of expertise was recorded.
This type of sampling ensures that different groups within a population are represented.
What is stratified sampling?
The 500 students from which the sample is drawn are called this.
What is the population?
This type of sampling involves dividing a population into groups called clusters
What is a Cluster Sample
Ms. Sanks asks the class, don't you agree that THE University of Alabama is the best Football Team Ever??
What is Biased
As your statistics project, you collect data by posting five questions on poster board around your classroom and recording how your classmates respond to them.
What is observation