你还在为考试焦头烂额?找我们就对了!

我们知道现在是考试月,你正在为了考试复习到焦头烂额。为了让更多留学生在备考与学习季更轻松,我们决定将Gold会员限时免费开放至2025年12月31日!原价£29.99每月,如今登录即享!无门槛领取。

助你高效冲刺备考!

题目
题目
单项选择题

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

选项
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.
查看解析

查看解析

标准答案
Please login to view
思路分析
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

登录即可查看完整答案

我们收录了全球超50000道考试原题与详细解析,现在登录,立即获得答案。

类似问题

Question at position 16 Which of the following DOES NOT result in some form of bias?Surveying people who work in the marketing department of a large corporation in order to assess employee satisfaction with management policiesPolling a group of potential voters outside a Republican campaign office in order to estimate the proportion of city residents who favor a particular candidateChoosing AP students to survey regarding their GPA in order to estimate the average GPA in schoolAsking shoppers leaving a grocery store if they think groceries should cost less in order to estimate the proportion of city residents who think groceries cost too muchChoosing a stratified random sample of juniors and seniors at a high school in order to estimate the proportion of juniors and seniors who plan to go on to college

Question at position 14 A political action committee sends a questionnaire to a random sample of previous donors, asking them to rate their satisfaction with the work the political action committee is doing to address issues facing the country. Which of the following statements about this survey is true?The survey results will likely overestimate support for this political action committee in the entire population because previous donors are more likely to approve of the work they do.The survey results will likely underestimate support for this political action committee in the entire population because people who respond are less likely to care about politics.Because the survey was sent to randomly selected donors, it should be free of bias.The survey results are invalid because it’s impossible to word questions about politics without creating bias.The survey results are invalid because only surveys conducted by phone are free from bias.

Question at position 13 A scientist studying soil acidity collected soil samples from a plot of land with a stream running through it. The soil samples came from land located on only one side of the stream. What is the potential source of bias that might result from the sampling method?nonresponse biasvoluntary response biasresponse bias, where responses are self-reportedresponse bias, where the question wording is leading or confusingundercoverage bias

Question at position 21 A certain company has five departments: A, B, C, D, and E. The number of employees in each department is 10, 10, 20, 30, and 30, respectively. A sample of 10 employees from all employees will be selected. Of the following descriptions of sampling procedures, which is most likely to introduce a potential source of bias?Randomly select 10 employees from department CRandomly select 2 employees from each of the five departmentsRandomly select 10 employees from all 100 employeesRandomly select every tenth employee from a randomized list of names of all employeesRandomly select 1 employee from each of A and B, 2 employees from C, and 3 employees from each of D and E

更多留学生实用工具

为了让更多留学生在备考与学习季更轻松,我们决定将Gold 会员限时免费开放至2025年12月31日!