Statistical Surveys: Choosing Sample Populations
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- Choosing a sample population is all about sampling the right people. For example, If you want to survey people from your school about if they go see movies or not, would it be s…
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- Choosing a sample population In statistics we conduct surveys or studies on many different topics in order to learn something about the population we are studying. Often times t…
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- Sample Populations The goal of statistics is to discover the underlying trends or correlations within an entire group. An issue that comes up is that most of the time is that th…
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- (Video) Sampling Basics by Wake Take Business Analytics In this video, we learn about random sampling. Summary\large{\text{Summary}}Summary You can choose a probably sampling by…
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Problems 20
- You want to take a sampling of kids at your local pool to see who plays video games. If you go around and ask every 5th kid you see, is this a good method of sampling?
- You decide to interview every person in your large school about whether they want a longer school day but shorter school year. Is interviewing every person practical?
- Your university radio station asks for callers to tell them who their favorite candidate is for the 2016 election. 70% of the callers say that Bernie Sanders is their favorite. …
- Cassidy wants to take a survey of people asking whether they use SnapChat or not. She decides to go to a retirement home to collect data. Is this a good sample population?
- Jack wants to take a survey asking people how many children they have. Which of the following are good sample populations for his survey?
- You want to see if baseball is gaining or losing popularity in the United States. You go to an amateur baseball game and ask people if they believe baseball is still as relevant…
- Which population would not be good for getting an unbiased survey asking a person for their favorite movie?
- Errors in statistical measures that occur due to the sample selection are often the result of....
- Dawson wants to find out people's favorite sports. He asks his friends on the soccer team. Is this biased?
- I am asking a group of students in school if they play instruments. That day, the band is absent in order to perform out of town. Is the sample in this scenario biased?
- Students fill out a form on whether or not they enjoyed their teacher's class. Is this sample biased?
- If Katie wants to know how many people prefer name brand cosmetics over drug store cosmetics, where is the best place to conduct a survey?
- Samantha is curious about how many of her peers have siblings, which of the following is the least effective way to create a representative sample?
- Erin wants to learn about the types of fish that live in the area surrounding her home. There are two rivers and three lakes in the area she wants to study. Which of the followi…
- A school district made up of four different high schools is interested in surveying students to find out if the students would be interested in expanding the art program. Which …
- Katie wants to open a drink stand this summer with her friend to save money to buy a video game. She is going to conduct a research study on whether or not her neighborhood of 2…
- A school takes a poll to find out which 6th graders want to eat at lunch right now. Thirty 6th grade students are randomly chosen to answer the poll questions. What is the popul…
- Alfred wants to conduct a survey to study whether or not high school students in Washington State think topics such as Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) sho…
- Taylor is curious about what age group is most likely to attend her high school's musical. Which of the following is the best way to learn about this?
- Sarah wants to learn about her classmates' social media preferences. Which of the following is the best sample population?