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GCSE Psychology · key term
Selecting participants so that every member of the target population has an equal chance of being chosen.
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Revise: Sampling MethodsIn random sampling, every member of the target population has an equal chance of being selected. Here, ‘random’ means using a chance procedure, not choosing whichever people happen to catch the researcher's attention.
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A sampling method in which every member of the target population has an equal chance of being selected.
Random sampling gives each member an equal chance; it does not guarantee a representative sample.
Distinguish random sampling, which selects participants, from allocation to experimental groups.
Random sampling selects participants from a population; random allocation places participants into experimental conditions. They are not the same process.
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In random sampling, every member of the target population has an equal chance of being selected. The researcher does not choose people because they seem convenient, interesting or likely to give particular answers.
