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Chapter 10: Q. 6 (page 667)

You can find the Excite Poll online at poll.excite.com. You simply click on a response to become part of the sample. The poll question for June 19,2005, was “Do you prefer watching first-run movies at a movie theater, or waiting until they are available on home video or pay-per-view?” In all, 8896people responded, with only 12%(1118people) saying they preferred theaters. You can conclude that

(a) American adults strongly prefer home videos or pay-per-view.

(b) the high nonresponse rate prevents us from drawing a conclusion.

(c) the sample is too small to draw any conclusion.

(d) the poll uses voluntary response, so the results tell us little about all American adults.

(e) American adults strongly prefer seeing movies at a movie theater.

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As the poll uses voluntry responses, it tells us about American Adults in a little manner.

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Given information

We have been given that

The high nonresponse prevents conclusion,sample is too small.

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Explanation

Selection or undercover bias will exclude part of thr population.

measurement will use a method that will provide us the data from the different true values.

Non responses is the result for not having data.

As we know that anyone can become a part of the sample by just clicking on the link ,which tells us that this does not provide us the true values.

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