Quantitative research

• Do the authors totally ramdomise the sample to make it more representative of the population? How do they do this?
• This reduces bias and therefore makes the findings more generalisable.
• If a sample of convenience is used, then to reduce bias it needs to be large enough to be representative.
• Sometimes a large convenient sample may be randomised into smaller groups.
• Types of sampling are detailed in the previous section .
• Did they use statistical calculations (power calculations) to determine how many people were needed in the sample to make the findings generalisable.
• Large numbers required.

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