What is the biggest barrier to using random sampling?

a. It is often unethical. You should not have all participants have equal chances of being selected because some might not want to participate.
b. It is only usable when the population is large. Thus, it is not useful for most research.
c. It is often impractical as researchers usually do not have access to the entire population of interest to recruit them randomly.
d. It is biased because the randomness makes it difficult to analyze the data that you collect.


Answer: c. It is often impractical as researchers usually do not have access to the entire population of interest to recruit them randomly.

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