Flutterby™! : best use of the term "snowball sampling" 2026-06-12 23:36:55.689667+02

best use of the term "snowball sampling"

2026-06-12 23:36:55.689667+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

McCormack, M. and Adams, A. and Anderson, E. (2013) 'Taking to the streets : the benefits of spontaneous methodological innovation in participant recruitment.', Qualitative research., 13 (2). pp. 228-241.

We identified four key problems that made this an ineffective method of recruiting participants (see also Hartman 2011). The first was that many people who responded to our messages only wanted to have sex with us.

Via ‪rahaeli‬ ‪@rahaeli.bsky.social‬.

They take a long time to get around to the actual sampling method, but... "forty bucks is forty bucks".

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