If you are interested in the shopping experiences of men at a furniture building supply shop and you choose your sample by interviewing men as they leave the shop on a Monday afternoon, what type of sampling are you conducting?
A) convenience sampling
B) snowball sampling
C) simple random sampling
D) systemic random sampling

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This is convenience sampling because the researcher is only selecting participants who are convenient and accessible to them (those who happen to be leaving the shop at that specific time). It is not a representative sample of all men who shop at the furniture building supply shop.

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