Most adults would erase their personal data from the internet if they could. A software firm survey of595 adults showed that 50.3%of them would erase all their personal data if they could. Make a subjective estimate to decide whether the results are significantly low, or high, and then state a conclusion about the original claim.

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Types of Bias

Statistics is the study of data collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation. Statistical bias is a characteristic of a statistical technique or its findings in which the expected value deviates from the actual root quantitative parameter being estimated. According to the actual definition of bias, it refers to the tendency of a statistic to overestimate or underestimate a parameter.