Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Randomness
I'm still adding to my lit review, reading articles. I've been considering people to interview. I kind of feel like selecting people would introduce a bias, but then this is sociological research, not psychological research. I need the right blend of people though, a variety of ages and a variety of hair preferences. Hopefully, I can get a lot of participants through word of mouth, maybe once people hear the blog they will be lining up to be interviewed :) It'll come together though. The focus as of now is having a thorough lit review, my main priority.
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Sociological research needs to be every bit as careful about who is selected to participate and how. But, you're right that you can be intentional about it. Remember the concept of "stratified random samples" from methods. Then there's "snowball sampling". You'd be doing a combination of both. Non-random, and stratified by age, style, etc.
ReplyDeletecan be "opportunistic" solicitation of participants too.
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