The greatest concentration of people live in Asia. What conclusion about religion might you draw from this additional fact? More people practice Islam than you would think by looking at a map of world religions.

People in Asia need to spend more time in religious practices because they are so crowded.

Hindus, Sikhs, and Buddhists believe in more than one god, so they probably all get along with each other quite well.

More people practice Sikhism, Buddhism, and Hinduism than you would think by looking at a map of world religions.

Asociologist wants to study a culture that occurs in some women’s prisons: “state families,” in which individual prisoners take on certain roles within a group of like-minded prisoners. there is previous evidence that younger prisoners will use older inmates who play the roles of grandparents as a resource before they will turn to staff for and advice. the lieutenant in charge of a dorm of long-term prisoners offers to gather volunteers to speak to the researcher and also offers to vouch for the integrity of the researcher. the use of this staff is: a valid use of a statistical technique referred to “snowball sampling” wherein the inclusion of the first subject leads to the recruitment of another one subject.a useful tactic in obtaining a sample of prisoners who both meet the criteria and who will be honest with the researcher.wrong and is prohibited; subject selection needs to be free from intervention by prison authorities or prisoners.acceptable only when the researcher’s irb grants a special waiver.