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Why do sociologists sample a population they are going to study?
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Because it would usually be prohibitively expensive and time consuming to collect information from every single member of the population and because the law of large numbers is sufficiently robust to allow most characteristics of a population to be measured with sufficient accuracy from a sample.
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What is a sample study?
sample is the population we make our study about them.
What effect does non-random sample have on what you can say about the results of a study?
It means that the results of the study cannot be claimed to hold for the entire population from which the sample was drawn. The researchers can only claim that their results hold for the individuals selected into their sample.
What is N is statistics?
The Population of the data set. If there was a study of 5000 people, 50 were randomly selected as a sample, then "N" would be 5000.
Suppose a population contains 400000 people. All else being equal a study based on a population sample that includes numbers of respondents would be the most reliable?
400
What is the 'sample' in and experiment?
A group selected from a population for observation in a study. That definition comes directly from the glossary in my research in education textbook. In other words, I think you want to define the people in the study.
What is a sample study?
sample is the population we make our study about them.
Is participants in a study of a new cholesterol drug sample or population?
population
Is the subset of the population chosen by the investigator for a study?
Control
Which unit of analysis do most sociologists study?
The unit of analysis that most sociologists study are samples. Samples portray the characteristics of the larger population from which the samples are taken.Reference:Vissing, Y. (2011). Introduction to Sociology. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.
What is the difference between psychologists and sociologists?
Sociologists study interactions between people but psycologists study people's emotions and how they think.
How do sampling methods effect the rigor of a study?
A sample needs to be random and if not a simple random sample of the whole population then a stratified random sample (there are different ways to stratify). Otherwise the study is a waste of time.
Which terms refers to the people from the target population that are surveyed or interviewed for a study?
sample
Which term refers to the people from the target population are surveyed or interviewed for a study?
sample
Which term refers to the people from the target population that are surveyed interview for a study?
sample
Difference between sample and sampling frame?
A sample is a smaller group selected from a larger population. It may be to costly and time consuming to carry out the study on the whole population so the researchers choose a sample and often generalise results.A sample frame is the list of people from which a sample for the study are selected. It is only carried out on the target population that the researcher is interested in studying. For example finding data on just school children would not involve the the whole population only children in schools.
What effect does non-random sample have on what you can say about the results of a study?
It means that the results of the study cannot be claimed to hold for the entire population from which the sample was drawn. The researchers can only claim that their results hold for the individuals selected into their sample.
Who is most likely to study a human catastrophe and why?
sociologists
