These studies make use of purposive sampling.
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Purposive
//ˈpɚpəsɪv//
Synonyms for "purposive" (32 found)
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Czech
1 entries- účelový adj (expressing purpose (grammar))
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1 entries- účelový adj (expressing purpose (grammar))
Spanish
1 entries- intencional adj (expressing purpose (grammar))
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Since reasoning is essentially a purposive form of thinking, it is evident that any reasoning process will depend largely upon the presence of some problem which shall stimulate the mind to seek out relations necessary to its solution.
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Irresistably it came to me again that beauty, far from being wasted, was purposive, that this purpose was of a redeeming kind, and that some one who was pleased co-operated with it for my personal benefit.
Source: wiktionary
As we saw in our discussion of the FAKE GUN example in chapter 19, there are natural dimensions to our categories for objects: […] purposive, based on the uses we can make of an object in a given situation.
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