Convenience Sampling

Which is convenience sampling? (Choose all that apply)

• Picking the first 27 people who respond to an email

• Picking 27 names out of a hat

• Picking the first 27 people who volunteer

• None of these

What kind of sample technique is the following:

Question everyone in the cafeteria.

• Convenience Sampling

• Simple Random Sampling

• Systematic Sampling

• Sample

What kind of sample technique is the following:

Question every person in the movie theater parking lot.

• Convenience Sampling

• Simple Random Sampling

• Systematic Sampling

• Sample

What kind of sample technique is the following: Survey the students in your classroom.

• Convenience Sampling

• Simple Random Sampling

• Systematic Sampling

• Sample

What kind of sample technique is the following: Question everyone who sits in your row.

• Convenience Sampling

• Simple Random Sampling

• Systematic Sampling

• Sample

What kind of sample technique is the following:

Giving a survey to everyone on your swim team.

• Convenience Sampling

• Simple Random Sampling

• Systematic Sampling

• Sample

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

Surveying the students in one home room is an example of which type of sampling method?

• Convenience

• Systematic

• Simple Random

Surveying the students at the next band practice is an example of which type of sampling method?

• Convenience

• Systematic

• Simple Random

Interview the first 30 students who enter the school in the morning. 

• simple random

• voluntary response

• systematic

• convenience