Determine whether each question is biased. Explain your answer.
What is your favorite television show?
Determine whether each question is biased?
Answer to Problem 17P
Can be biased or unbiased; depends on the group from where the sample is chosen.
Explanation of Solution
Given:
What is your favourite television show?
Calculation:
It depends on the peope from whom the sample is chosen.
If the sample is chosen randomly , like , by picking names from a telephone book ; the question is unbiased.
If the sample is chosen from a group of people that watches a particular TV show on a daily basis , then certainly they will go for the name of the particular TV show and the answers will be biased, like, sample is chosen from people that watches “Game of Thrones” , then the question will be biased.
So, it depends on the group from where the sample is chosen.
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