Question

A professor wants draw a sample of 50 students to fill out a questionnaire about which sports they play. The professor’s 10:00 am class has 50 students. She uses the first 20 minutes of class to have the students fill out the questionnaire. Which sampling method did the professor use?

Answer 1

Explanation:

I would suggest that this is cluster sampling.

The teacher is selecting a cluster of the population at random to sample.

This is a method of probabalistic sampling.