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A researcher wants to sample 200 employees from a company roster of 10,000 using systematic random sampling. The sampling interval is 50. The researcher randomly selects employee #23 as the starting point, then selects every 50th employee (23, 73, 123, ...). Unknown to the researcher, the roster is alphabetically sorted, and employees with the same last name appear in clusters of exactly 50 people. What is the primary consequence of this sampling procedure?
A researcher wants to sample 200 employees from a company roster of 10,000 using systematic random sampling. The sampling interval is 50. The researcher randomly selects employee #23 as the starting point, then selects every 50th employee (23, 73, 123, ...). Unknown to the researcher, the roster is alphabetically sorted, and employees with the same last name appear in clusters of exactly 50 people. What is the primary consequence of this sampling procedure?