Determine whether each question is biased. Explain your answer.
You want to find out how much families in your community spend on entertainment each month. You ask every tenth person at the local movie theater. How might this cause a bias in your results?
Determine whether each question is biased?
Answer to Problem 19P
Biased
Explanation of Solution
Given:
You want to find out how much families in your community spend on entertainment each month. You ask every tenth person at the local movie theatre .
Calculation:
The question is biased.
Since the question is asked from the peope going at the local movie theatre , they are already spending on entertainment . So, the results will count only those that are spending on the entertainment and not the ones that are not spending on entertainment.
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