Assignment:
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1. (a) How can you avoid bias when selecting samples for human services research?
(b) Imagine that you are going to design a survey that will be administered to consumers/clients in your field (e.g., nursing home residents, youth mentors, single mothers).
- How would you go about sampling from this population in order to generate meaningful data?
- What might be some of the challenges in ending up with a representative sample?
2. List different measures of variability discussed in the readings and, using your professional field, provide an example to illustrate the concept. If you were a manager looking at these measures of variability around some aspect of employee productivity, what may they tell you about an individual's or team's performance?