Discussion Question
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Chamber
of commerce is interested to find out the factors which influence the success
of inherited entrepreneurs. In this context, your have been assigned to
conduct the interviews of inherited entrepreneurs.
For
the purpose of data collection, you have downloaded list of entrepreneurs
from the Chamber of Commerce website. But you were astonished to see that
there is no information available about family entrepreneurs.
Task
which seems quite easy becomes an uphill task for you. You are in the middle
of no where and you discussed this situation with another researcher,
Muhammad Ali. He advised, “You should find a person who is a family
entrepreneur, and ask him, if he knows any one who is also a family
entrepreneur i.e. contact will give you other contacts. This chain of
information will give you the direction to find other family entrepreneurs.
It is a long process but you will get authentic data.”
Which
type of sampling technique Muhammad Ali is pointing out? Whether Muhammad
Ali’s advice is right or wrong? Justify your opinion.
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Semester “Fall 2011”
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“Research Methods (STA630)”
Dear Students,
This is to inform that Graded Discussion Board (GDB) will be opened according to the following schedule:
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Schedule
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Opening Date and Time
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January 12, 2012 At 12:01 A.M. (Mid-Night)
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Closing Date and Time
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January 16, 2012 At 11:59 P.M. (Mid-Night)
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Topic/Area for Discussion
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“Types of Sampling”
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Solution
Stratified Sampling
In a stratified sample the sampling frame is divided into
non-overlapping groups or strata, e.g. geographical areas, age-groups, genders.
A sample is taken from each stratum, and when this sample is a simple random
sample it is referred to as stratified random sampling.
In my opinion Mr ali’s opinion is wrong because its difficult to
find a family entrepreneur because there is no such a great info
available.
It is "Snowball Sampling" hand out page 91 Muhammad ali is right.
think this method is good
as with referals he cant get
others to conduct a survey
but Convenience Sampling will also be good
chk ur self please
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