Question

There are 40 students in your school who are cricket players. You are to form a team of 11 players. How would you do it? Would you resort to random sampling technique? Give reasons in support of your answer.

Answer 1

We can use the random sampling technique if and only if all the students of the school are equally brilliant in the game of cricket, otherwise, if no such information is available non-random sampling technique can be used. In this regard, any of the non-random sampling, namely, judgement, quota or convenience sampling technique can be used. For instance, in accordance to the judgement sampling, based on your own opinion and judgement, any 11 students that in your opinion are the best, can be selected out of the total 40 students.