<![CDATA[Reviewing something where the researcher uses the sampling technique of "snow-blowing" and, brother, I feel you.]]>Reviewing something where the researcher uses the sampling technique of "snow-blowing" and, brother, I feel you. Winter has been too long.

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(For anyone unfamiliar: a snowball sample is when you start with a few documents/persons that meet your criteria & then follow their references/personal connections to others, getting bigger & bigger as you go, like rolling a snowball out of sticky snow.)

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