I take Calum's point that:
> I'm afraid I feel that there is no shortcut in well done research. You just
> have to get out there and recruit as representative a sample as possible and
> this is time consuming.
Is there not a case though that a participant register might at least
allow you to recruit one section of your representative population
(i.e. the educated computer-literate participants) with relative
ease, to leave more time and resources to concentrate on the rest?
It might also be possible to see a situation, with a large enough
register of potential recruits, where certain demographic
groups become available remotely that you might otherwise have no
chance of approaching. The danger I suppose is that the same
participants are used repeatedly, but at least a register would allow
you to monitor that, I presume. In any case, all good research should
clearly state the recruitment strategy to allow the reader to make a
decision on the generalisability of the findings.
Brian
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