In a researcher’s study of long term marriages, after identifying 10 couples who had been married for 40 or more years, she asked each couple to identify two couples who have also been married for 40 or more years. She continued this referral process until she had interviewed 100 couples. What sampling technique did she use?

a. convenience sampling
b. simple random sampling
c. systematic sampling
d. snowball sampling


Answer d,

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