Rubin and Rubin (1995) suggest three guidelines for selecting informants when designing a purposive sampling strategy. What is one of these guidelines?
A) Informants should be knowledgeable about the cultural arena or situation or experience being studied
B) Informant are selected in advance by the researcher.
C) Informants should not be representative of the range of points of view
D) Elements are selected to ensure that the sample represents certain characteristics in proportion to their prevalence in the population.
A) Informants should be knowledgeable about the cultural arena or situation or experience being studied
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What will be an ideal response?
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a. enemies b. elderly c. lovers d. none of the above
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After a trial for armed robbery that resulted in a conviction, Charlie Garrin successfully appealed the armed robbery conviction on the ground that his federal constitutional right to a speedy trial had been violated
Since Charlie Garrin has prevailed in his appeal, the remedy he will receive for the constitutional speedy trial violation is that A) the trial has discretion concerning whether to allow a retrial or to reduce the sentence by the length of the delay. B) the trial judge who presided will reduce Charlie Garrin's sentence by the length of time that the right to a speedy trial was violated. C) Charlie Garrin will be granted a new trial for armed robbery so long as the prosecution does not delay the trial for any reason. D) the jurisdiction in which the armed robbery case was originally tried must pay compensation to Charlie Garrin for any personal damages that Charlie Garrin suffered as a result of the delay. E) Charlie Garrin will be set completely free and will not be retried for armed robbery.