A Level Business - Secondary Research & Sampling

Which of these is NOT an example of a secondary source?

• Newspaper articles
• Diary entry
• Encyclopedia
• Textbook

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Secondary source documents are all of the following EXCEPT:

• An analysis of primary sources or events
• Interpretations of original documents
• Sources created later by someone who did not participate in the event
• Original materials

What type of source is this? A magazine article from 2011 titled “Mining in the Old West in the 1860’s-1890’s” 

• Primary
• Secondary

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

▶Looking up information about people buying different types of cereals in a Nestle survey online

• Primary research

• Secondary research

▶Interviewing people through a telephone survey

• Primary research

• Secondary research

Using the government statistics to find out about the favorite cereals among children

• Primary research

• Secondary research

This is information that is useful and has already been collected for another purpose.

• Primary Data
• Secondary Data

Dylan wants to know how the students at his school rate the cafeteria.  He surveyed his school's basketball team to rate the school cafeteria. Is this a biased sample of the school's population?

• Yes, because it is a convenience survey
• No, the basketball team has the smartest students
• Yes, because it's voluntary survey
• No, he should have asked the football team

True or False: all samples lead to a good prediction about an entire population.

• True
• False

Mrs. Trahan samples her class by selecting 5 girls and 7 boys.  This type of sampling is called?

• Stratified
• Systematic
• Simple
• Cluster