Snowball sampling is a popular method of researching hidden populations, but its limitations make it the wrong choice for counting or describing the global population of trafficked humans.

What are the possibilities of snowball sampling, if one desires valid statistical inference without making probabilistic assumptions on the network structure? In a critical review of the possibilities ...

Wang, J. and Wang, X. (2025) The Gender in the Glass: Female Drinking Behavior and “Moral Dilemmas”. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 13, 634-647. doi: 10.4236/jss.2025.137035 .

This study evaluated the equivalence of Chinese and US-English versions of the SF-36 Health Survey in a convenience sample of 309 Chinese nationals bilingual in Chinese and English living in a US city ...