Susanne Muigg wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> now I'm about to finish my thesis, but still looking for some literature
> about the advantages and disadvantages of a (student) convenience sample,
> which I had used. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything, even if I've done
> quite an extensive literature search in all big Austrian university
> libraries, in international databanks and via Internet.
>
> If you know where I could find something about the pros and cons of
> convenience sampling, please help me!
>
This doesn't ring true. I ran "convenience sample" (with quotation
marks) through http://www.northerlight.com and was greeted with
3,074 items.
I didn't read them, but the summaries of the first few items seemed
quite relevant to your query.
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