If you are interested in participants in your study with very specific characteristics e.g. English as a second language) you may conduct __________sampling and once you contact some individuals who want to participate, you may then conduct _________sampling in which participants identify other potential participants.
A) snowball; purposive
B) matched; snowball
C) random; non-random
D) purposive; snowball

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Purposive sampling is used to select participants with specific characteristics, and snowball sampling involves current participants recruiting future participants.

If You Are Interested in Participants in Your Study with Very