As a government employee tasked with maintaining and advocating for workers’ rights, you are interested in...

As a government employee tasked with maintaining and advocating for workers’ rights, you are interested in learning more about the working conditions for restaurant employees in the state of Massachusetts. You decide that the best approach is to ask restaurant employees about their working conditions directly. You create a survey and email a notice out to workers who happen to be the “all Massachusetts workers” email list that is easy for you to use. In your survey, you ask people questions about which restaurant they work at, their working experience, how their supervisors and employers treat them, their wages, and if they have experienced any type of work place abuse. You then place the survey link on a Massachusetts government website and allow anyone to take it who wants to. All responses are able to be viewed publicly. (10 points).

What are the two primary reasons that make this a biased sample? Explain why each presents a problem when trying to answer your research question (4 points).

Separately from the two reasons above, why are you unlikely to get completely honest responses in your survey? (2 points).

You decide to improve your survey by first randomly selecting restaurants across the state of Massachusetts, and then randomly selecting a set number of employees within each of those selected restaurants to take your survey.

What type of sampling method is this? (1 points).

Explain how this method addresses the two main problems of sampling bias from your original study design discussed above (3 point)

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a. It is a biased sample because only employees are being surveyed and not the employers. Usually in this situation an in depth understanding is needed about the place. Someone working in a place will not view it objectively. They will have their biases according to the treatment they receive from the employer. Each employees response can vary as they will only think for themselves, not the treatment that others receive.

i. Social desirability - As the responses will be shared publicly, it is difficult to be honest.

ii. Those who choose to be honest will fear that they may be reprimanded if their responses are not in sync with the employers expectations.

b. i. Choosing from different restaurants at random can be done through Stratified Random Sampling.

ii. The population will be divided into sub populations and since only one hotel is not being targeted , it will be easy to collect ample data.

The process can be made anonymous , this way if responses are not made public , individuals will be more honest.

Hayet Jeridi answered 1 year ago

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