Adv/Disadv of Volunteer sampling

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  • Created by: Zoe
  • Created on: 05-01-13 16:29

Adv/Disadv of Volunteer sampling

Advantages

  • More ethical because participants have approached researcher
  • May have an interest in the subject so they are less likely to give biased information

Disadvantages

  • Could take a long time to get enough people to do experiment
  • Rules out certain occupations and types of people - unrepresentative

Evaluation

Definition: Asked to participate e.g newspaper ad/ questionnaire 

Comments

mel

Report

also higher chance of demand characterisitics