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In social science research, snowball sampling, or "snowballing": a technique for developing a research sample; In researching a field, snowballing is another name for Pearl growing; In chemical and industrial engineering, snowballing is the second and last phase, after aggregation, of the pelletization process.
In sociology and statistics research, snowball sampling [1] (or chain sampling, chain-referral sampling, referral sampling [2] [3]) is a nonprobability sampling technique where existing study subjects recruit future subjects from among their acquaintances. Thus the sample group is said to grow like a rolling snowball.
Pearl growing is a metaphor taken from the process of small bits of sand growing to make a beautiful pearl, which is used in information literacy.This is also called "snowballing", [1] alluding to the process of how a snowball can grow into a big snow-man by accumulating snow.
A snowball. A snowball is a spherical object made from snow, usually created by scooping snow with the hands and pressing the snow together to compact it into a ball. [1] Snowballs are often used in games such as snowball fights. A snowball may also be a large ball of snow formed by rolling a smaller snowball on a snow-covered surface.
A snowball effect [1] is a process that starts from an initial state of small significance and builds upon itself (an exacerbating feedback), becoming larger (graver, more serious), and also perhaps potentially more dangerous or disastrous (a vicious circle), though it might be beneficial instead (a virtuous circle).
The Snowball Earth is a geohistorical hypothesis that proposes that during one or more of Earth's icehouse climates, the planet's surface became nearly entirely frozen with no liquid oceanic or surface water exposed to the atmosphere.
Other idioms for the slippery slope fallacy are the thin edge of the wedge, domino fallacy (as a form of domino effect argument) or dam burst, and various other terms that are sometimes considered distinct argument types or reasoning flaws, such as the camel's nose in the tent, parade of horribles, boiling frog, and snowball effect.
The debt snowball method goal is to motivate the person in debt to continue paying off the debt. There is a reward to seeing the first smaller debt go away. Feelings is how many get in debt, thus feelings is how one gets out of debt. The plan is easy and simple to follow. [6] Cons: