A researcher notices that her study of intravenous drug users is interviewing many men but very few women. She realizes that she needs more women in her sample to make it representative, so she offers extra incentives to women drug users if they agree to participate in the study. This sampling strategy would best be called

a. targeted sampling.
b. simple random sampling.
c. area sampling.
d. snowball sampling.


a

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