Maggie wanted to do a study of women who had participated in extramarital affairs. Since there is no sampling frame listing all such women, she visited a women's group and asked for volunteers among those who had participated in an affair. She then asked each of those women for the names of other possible study participants. She was using which design?
a. quota sampling
b. purposive sampling
c. snowball sampling
d. simple random sampling
e. stratified sampling
C
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