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C. The sampling frame does not include some members of the population.
D. The wording of a question leads subjects to a particular type of response.
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5. Recently the Gallup Poll sought the opinions of American adults regarding U.S. government
policies toward Cuba and on conditions in that island nation. For example, 60% of the 1,050
adults interviewed by Gallup said they favored re-establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba,
while 30%
author of the Gallup study wrote: "For results based on the total sample of national adults, one
can say with 95% confidence that the margin of sampling error is 3 percentage points.
same poll Gallup asked half of the respondents the following question:
As you may know, Fidel Castro has resigned as president of Cuba. As a result, do you think that
ó said they opposed the idea. In the report describing the survey methods used, the
" In this
the situation for people in Cuba will get better, stay the same, or get worse
They asked the other half of the respondents the question with a slightly different wording:
As you may know, Fidel Castro has resigned as president of Cuba. As a result, do you think that
the situation for people in Cuba will get worse, stay the same, or get better?
a. People often pick the first choice offered to them. Thus, by switching the order of the
choices at the end of the question for half of the respondents, Gallup should be able to
A. improve the reliability of the results.
C. decrease the margin of error
B. reduce the bias in the results
increase the confidence level
b. If Gallup had just reported the results for the 525 people who answered the first version
of the question, then the margin of error they would have reported would be
A. smaller than 3 percentage points
C.
B. still 3 percentage points
D. changed since the population was cut in h
bigger than 3 percentage points
16. The Pew Global Attitudes Survey asked adults in several countries if they were
about global warming. In the United States, 53% of the respondents said t!
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