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At a lunch meeting with a client, the CEO of Gossip Polls, Inc., was asked to determine America's favorite day of the week. Hundreds of Gossip employees across the U.S. started collecting data immediately, calling people at their residences. One hour later, the attitudes from 10,000 Americans, across all 50 states, were collected. A staff member called the CEO, still at her lunch meeting, to tell her the results of the poll: America's favorite day of the week is Monday. Given your text's discussion of inductive reasoning in science, we might suspect that the observations in this poll are not representative because

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A.the participants were only asked one question for this poll.
B.everyone in America was not asked their opinion.
C.the participants were not sufficiently geographically diverse.
D.the people who are home to answer the phone in the early afternoon are not an appropriate cross-section of the U.S. population.
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Restating the scenario and options to ground the analysis: At a lunch meeting with a client, the CEO of Gossip Polls, Inc. summarizes a poll claiming America’s favorite day of the week is Monday, based on data collected from 10,000 Americans across all 50 states in one hour via telephone calls at residences. The question asks why these observations might not be representative, given inductive reasoning in science. Options: 1) the participants were only asked one question for this poll. 2) everyone in America was not asked their opinion. 3) the participants were not sufficiently geographically div......Login to view full explanation

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