Question 1 Report
Which of the following methods best allows a sports psychologist to obtain the views of members of a climbing club who volunteer after seeing a notice: random sampling, opportunity sampling or stratified sampling?
(a) Name the sampling method used. [1]
(b) Explain one weakness of this method for the researcher’s study. [2]
(a) Opportunity sampling / volunteer sampling [1] (b) The sample may contain people who are especially interested in the topic / have strong views [1] so it may not represent all climbing-club members and findings may not generalise [1]
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