Concept explainers
To find: The each question is biased, explain your answer.
Answer to Problem 18PPE
The question "Do you support government funding of study on global warming is biased.
Explanation of Solution
Given information:
The given information is since global warming is a big problem, do you support government funding of studies on global warming.
Calculation:
Consider the following statement:
Since global warming is a big problem, do you support the government funding of the studies onglobal warming.Objective is to determine the survey question is biased or not.
The survey question is, "Do you support government funding of study on global warming".
The definition of bias is: if the question contains the assumptions that may or may not be true, then the survey question is said to be bias Otherwise, the question of the survey is not bias.
Here, the word government funding is just like an assumption which may or may not be true. so, the survey question is biased.
Also the word government funding, influence the answer of the people.
Therefore, the question "Do you support government funding of study on global warming is biased.
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