Sally is completing a narrative study on the rehabilitation of middle-aged women runners after stress fractures in their feet. She therefore selects only women in the 35-45 year age range who are just beginning rehabilitation at one particular clinic. Sally's sampling strategy can best be described as
A) simple random sampling.
B) cluster sampling.
C) homogeneous sampling.
D) random purposive sampling.

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Sally's sampling strategy is homogeneous sampling because she is selecting a specific group that shares common characteristics: middle-aged women runners in the 35-45 year age range beginning rehabilitation for stress fractures in their feet. This approach ensures the sample is very similar in regards to the specific criteria of interest, which is typical of homogeneous sampling.

Sally Is Completing a Narrative Study on the Rehabilitation of Middle-Aged