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kshipps

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Political pollsters, who are only interested in surveying people who will actually vote, learned long ago that to determine whether or not someone is a likely voter, it is useless to simply ask them if they plan to vote. Explain why.

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Which of the following are examples of measurements?
 a. The gender of each member of your statistics class.
  b. Your opinion on whether smoking should be banned in all public places (support, oppose, no opinion).
  c. The number of deaths in each state in a given year due to accidents.
  d. All of the above.


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parker125

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Reply #1 on: Jul 24, 2018
Answer to Question 1

MOST PEOPLE WILL SAY YES, CREATING BIAS IN THE SUBSEQUENT SURVEY RESULTS.

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Reply 2 on: Jul 24, 2018
:D TYSM

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YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

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