Your school district is considering having summer library hours at several elementary schools. These hours will allow children to take out books over the summer. A team of researchers has been hired to determine if the local community supports the cost of the program. The researchers develop a brief survey and go to the local public library on Saturday morning to solicit volunteers to fill out their survey. These researchers are illustrating
A) quota sampling.
B) purposive sampling.
C) convenience sampling.
D) systematic sampling.

Question

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The researchers are using convenience sampling because they are selecting volunteers who happen to be at the public library on a Saturday morning, rather than intentionally seeking out a representative sample of the population. This may limit the generalizability of their findings to the larger community.

Your School District Is Considering Having Summer Library Hours at Several