Litigation Surveys. In the article, “Non-probability Sampling Designs for Litigation Surveys (Trademark Reporter, Vol. 81, pp. 169–179), J. Jacoby and H. Handlin discussed the controversy about whether nonprobability samples are acceptable as evidence in litigation.

The authors randomly selected 26 journals from a list of 1285 scholarly journals in the social and behavioral sciences. They examined all articles published during one year in each of the 26 journals selected with regard to sampling methods. What type of sampling design was used by these two authors in their investigation? Explain your answer.