Related questions with answers
Eighty thousand people attending a professional football game filled out surveys asking their opinions on using tax money to upgrade the football stadium. Seventy percent said that they supported the use of tax money. Then a pollster surveyed a simple random sample of voters, and only of the voters in this sample supported the use of tax money. The owner of the football team claims that the survey done at the football stadium is more reliable, because the sample size was much larger. Is he right? Explain.
Solution
VerifiedThe owner of the football team is wrong because even though the sample size was larger, the sampling method that he used is biased. The samples on his survey are all football fans, hence, it is more likely that they will support using tax money to upgrade the football stadium. Therefore, his samples are not the true representative of the population.
Create a free account to view solutions
Create a free account to view solutions
Recommended textbook solutions

Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists
9th Edition•ISBN: 9780321629111 (4 more)Keying E. Ye, Raymond H. Myers, Ronald E. Walpole, Sharon L. Myers

The Practice of Statistics for the AP Exam
5th Edition•ISBN: 9781464108730 (1 more)Daniel S. Yates, Daren S. Starnes, David Moore, Josh Tabor
Statistics and Probability with Applications
3rd Edition•ISBN: 9781464122163Daren S. Starnes, Josh TaborMore related questions
- chemistry
1/4
- chemistry
1/7