A student researcher conducted a laboratory experiment to investigate the effect of auditory distraction on reading comprehension. She recruited an opportunity sample of 15 students who were studying in the university library.
Reading comprehension was then measured using a 10-item multiple-choice questionnaire.
The researcher used opportunity sampling to select the participants for this experiment.
Explain why random sampling might have been a better sampling technique in this study.
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