Your college newspaper features a headline reading, "COUNSELLING CENTRE RESEARCHER SEEKING UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS FOR SMOKING STUDY. PARTICIPANTS WILL BE PAID FOR THEIR TIME." This type of recruitment is most typical of which of the following research techniques?

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This type of recruitment for research participants through a college newspaper is most typical of analogue sample technique, where the sample consists of individuals who resemble the population of interest in certain ways (in this case, being undergraduate college students who smoke). The researcher is seeking participants who resemble their target population but may not be representative of it, and offering money as an incentive to participate. Clinical samples are recruited from individuals seeking treatment, random samples are selected at random from the population of interest, and correlational studies analyze the relationship between variables.

Your College Newspaper Features a Headline Reading, "COUNSELLING CENTRE RESEARCHER