- In between the research, one or more samples may fall ill due to some viral disease. In such a case, parents of the sample may be reluctant to allow the researcher to study their child.
- If the research is on the effect of parents' long working hours on the child's academic achievement, it would be difficult for the researcher to get the parents' precious time.
- Generally, we ask samples to feedin the survey as 'anonymous', and when some of the samples provide inadequate data, like some may forget to feed in some questions in hurry, or some may have misinterpreted them, then it is difficult to know whom to contact.
- If the research is on the effect of exam phobia on the students' health and their achievements, then parents may be reluctant to give permission to study their children.
Monday, April 2, 2007
Problems that a researcher might face in accessing a sample:
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The 3rd point refers to accessing the sample after collecting data,, what we are looking at is accessing sample before collecting data, but still it could be identified as an accessibility issue, still according to me I would not consider this as an apt example.
As we are referring to criteria of sampling design, that is while designing a sample and not after we have designed the sample and collected data.
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