Assignment task: Social Sciences And Research
1) You were asked by the principal of a local high school to do a survey of the student body. The principal believes it is sufficient to stop students on their way to the library and hand out the questionnaire. You want to argue for a probability sample instead. State your argument by giving at least two reasons.
2) If you want to conduct a quantitative study of architects in Canada, how can you obtain the sample: briefly (in couple sentences) state your sampling plan for each of the following sampling methods.
- Non-probability sampling
- Systematic sampling
- Stratified sampling
- Cluster sampling
3) Would you agree with the following statement? Explain your answer.
"Social scientists can measure anything they are interested in measuring."