Sampling

Question 1

What is a population?

Answer 1

A group of people who are the focus of the researchers interest from which a smaller sample is drawn

Question 2

What is a sample?

Answer 2

A group of people who take part in a research investigation .
Sample is drawn from target population and is presumed to be representative of that population

Question 3

What is a sampling technique?

Answer 3

A technique used to select people from the population

Question 4

What is a bias?

Answer 4

A certain group may be under or over representative which limits the extent to which generalisation can be done

Question 5

Explain what is the difference between population and sample?

Answer 5

Population is the group of people that the researchers are interested in whereas the sample is the group of people who are actually taking part in the investigation