On Wed, 05 Jul 2000 17:46:10 GMT, Jerry Dallal
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been following the thread and I feel I should add that
> the overall tone of the responses is might be tempered a bit.
> I'm torn. This is .edu and I'd hate to give students the
> idea convenience samples are fine.
At 05:46 PM 7/5/00 +, Jerry Dallal wrote:
>I've been following the thread and I feel I should add that
>the overall tone of the responses is might be tempered a bit.
>I'm torn. This is .edu and I'd hate to give students the
>idea convenience samples are fine. They are not and the
>reasons a
I wrote:
>
> This doesn't ring true. I ran "convenience sample" (with quotation
> marks) through http://www.northerlight.com and was greeted with
> 3,074 items.
>
> I didn't read them, but the summaries of the first few items seemed
> quite relevant to your query.
shuda writ
http://www.north
I've been following the thread and I feel I should add that
the overall tone of the responses is might be tempered a bit.
I'm torn. This is .edu and I'd hate to give students the
idea convenience samples are fine. They are not and the
reasons are detailed in this thread and the WWW links
prov
I'm afraid that some of the comments about convenience sampling have been a
bit too harsh. Convenience samples can provide you with useful information.
You have to characterize (usually in a qualitative sense) how your sample
would differ from an ideal sample that was randomly selected. In particu
i googled it ... and found a few ...
http://www.surveysite.com/newsite/docs/convenience.htm
http://www.business.utah.edu/~mgtsc/Ch07/sld029.htm
http://www.nwmissouri.edu/nwcourses/martin/methods/introsample/sld008.htm
http://cda.mrs.umn.edu/~anderson/math1601/notes/ch3/node9.html
http://www2.
Susanne Muigg wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> now I'm about to finish my thesis, but still looking for some literature
> about the advantages and disadvantages of a (student) convenience sample,
> which I had used. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything, even if I've done
> quite an extensive literatu
Susanne Muigg wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> now I'm about to finish my thesis, but still looking for some literature
> about the advantages and disadvantages of a (student) convenience sample,
> which I had used. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything, even if I've done
> quite an extensive literature
as bob hayden put it ... succinctly ... most of what you have are problems ...
there are two main ones i see:
1. the inability to define ... conceptually or operationally ... what is
the target population to which you want to generalize your results?
(assuming you do of course ... if not, stat
Susanne Muigg wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> now I'm about to finish my thesis, but still looking for some literature
> about the advantages and disadvantages of a (student) convenience sample,
> which I had used. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything, even if I've done
> quite an extensive literatu
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now I'm about to finish my thesis, but still looking for some literature
about the advantages and disadvantages of a (student) convenience sample,
which I had used. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything, even if I've done
quite an extensive liter
Hi there,
now I'm about to finish my thesis, but still looking for some literature
about the advantages and disadvantages of a (student) convenience sample,
which I had used. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything, even if I've done
quite an extensive literature search in all big Austrian univer
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