Suppose you are conducting a survey to find your class\'s feelings on a certain

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Suppose you are conducting a survey to find your class's feelings on a

certain pizza toppingcertain pizza topping.

You want to take a simple random sample of the population of

3030

people. However,

1010

people out of the population

do not want to participatedo not want to participate.

Do you believe this can affect your ability to obtain accurate polling results about the entire population? If so, how?

Choose the correct answer below.

A.) Yes, it keeps the people who are less informed from introducing bias to your survey.

B.) Yes, it allows you to better target your intended demographic.

C.) Yes, especially if the people who

do not want to participatedo not want to participate

have a trait that is not accurately represented by the remaining people in the class.

D.) No, this does not affect your ability to obtain accurate polling results.

Explanation / Answer

the answer to this question is

c)

Yes, especially if the people who

do not want to participate

have a trait that is not accurately represented by the remaining people in the class.

since , we cannot generalize or come to some accurate predictions, since the people didnot participate., and since we do not have data of nearly 34% of our user . that means our result will always be biased by 34%.

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