Sampling Methods Review

Sporting Illustrated collects data on its readers by asking them to fill out and send in a survey from the June issue.

• Convenience

• Systematic

• Stratified

• Simple Random

A group of lobbyists has a list of 100 senators. They decide to talk to every 7th senator on the list about their position on farm subsidies.

• Convenience

• Systematic

• Stratified

• Simple Random

A teacher puts all her students' names in hat, then selects 3 names from the hat. These students will take a standardized test.

• Convenience

• Systematic

• Stratified

• Simple Random

The president of a college randomly selects 2 students from each department to serve on a student advisory board.

• Convenience

• Systematic

• Stratified

• Simple Random

A teacher wants to know the average time spent doing homework by the students in her class of 20 girls and 5 boys.

She selects the five closest to her desk.

• simple random

• Self Selected.

• Convenience

• Systematic Random

A teacher wants to know the average time spent doing homework by the students in her class of 20 girls and 5 boys.

She picks the student in every 5th seat.

• Simple Random

• Systematic

• voluntary response

• convenience

An independent research company wants to go door to door to survey people in the city of Fontana. The company decides to number all blocks within the city limit, randomly choose 1 block and survey all households on that block.

This is an example of:

• Simple Random Sample

• Stratified Random Sample

• Cluster Random Sample

• Systematic Random Sampling

A ___ is a large group that includes everything being studied.

• Sample
• Stratified Sampling Method
• Population
• Voluntary-Response

State the type of sample.

In order to determine the average IQ of ninth-grade students, a school psychologist obtains a list of all schools in the local public school system. She randomly selects five of these schools and administers an IQ test to all ninth-grade students at the selected schools.

• Stratified Random Sample

• Cluster Sample

• SRS

• Random Sample

A ___ is a small portion of the population used to gather data from.

• Systematic Sampling Method
• Sample
• Population
• Bias