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A student wishes to determine the percentage of students in his school that bring a sack lunch. He decides to poll every student in his grade level. It is found that 30 percent on the students polled bring a sack lunch. The student concludes that 30 percent of the students in the school bring a sack lunch. Identify the abuse of statistics.

bad sample

small sample

nonresponse

loaded question

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Perla Bentley

16 May, 17:32

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A student wishes to determine the percentage of students in his school that bring a sack lunch. He decides to poll every student in his grade level. It is found that 30 percent on the students polled bring a sack lunch. The student concludes that 30 percent of the students in the school bring a sack lunch. Identify the abuse of statistics.

bad sample

small sample

nonresponse

loaded question

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Chandler Daniels · Answer 1

I would say this is considered small sample, because there is nothing really wrong with his survey in terms of quality. it's not like he only survey boys or girls, or like only survey rich or poor people. In other words, his survey is from a random pool, assuming the kids in his grade are mostly normal people. Therefore, I would say that if this person surveyed more people, then he'll get much better data.