Your college newspaper features a headline reading, "COUNSELING CENTER 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 recruitment method is typical of an analogue sample, where participants are selected based on their similarity to a particular group or population being studied (in this case, undergraduate smokers). The researcher is not necessarily interested in studying all smokers or all college students, but rather a specific subset. The fact that participants will be paid for their time suggests that they are being incentivized to participate, which is also common in analogue sampling.

Your College Newspaper Features a Headline Reading, "COUNSELING CENTER RESEARCHER