Ways of Reducing Gender Bias in Sampling

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Question

You want to conduct a survey of social work students here at the University. You have determined that a random sample is best and have been provided with a list of all students’ names. Given that there are less male than female students, you are concerned that a simple random sample would produce a sample of mostly female students. Describe another sampling strategy that you could use to address your concern and describe the procedure that you would follow to obtain your sample.

Summary

The question belongs to Statistics and it is about the alternatives for arriving at a sample which has equal number of participants from both gender. The solution discusses this further.

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