Sampling Bias

Source of bias in which people CHOOSE to respond and usually only people with very strong opinions respond

• Response Bias
• Undercoverage
• Convenience Sampling
• Voluntary Response

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Source of bias in which some groups of populations are LEFT OUT of the selection process

• Response Bias
• Undercoverage
• Convenience Sampling
• Voluntary Response

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CCSS.7.SP.A.1

Source of bias that occurs when you ask people who are EASY to ask

• Response Bias
• Convenience Sampling
• Nonresponse
• Voluntary Response

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Marianne wanted to know students' opinion on the new schedule at school. She places students' names in a container and randomly picks out 20 names. 

• Convenience Sampling
• Systematic Random Sampling
• Simple Random Sampling
• Volunteer response

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

Why do we randomly select our samples?

• for control
• reduce bias
• so we don't get the same answers from everyone
• to eliminate confounding results

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

The teacher samples her class by selecting all students sitting at group 1 and group 5 in her classroom.  This sampling technique is called?

• SRS
• Stratified
• Systematic
• Cluster

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

At a middle school, the 7th graders will conduct a survey for where to go on a field trip. Which method will result in the least biased decision?

• to randomly ask 8th grade students who went on a field trip last year
• to randomly choose some 7th grade students to select a location
• to ask all 7th grade teachers and administrators for a location
• to ask the student council to choose a location

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

Each student in the school is given a different number.  A student is randomly selected from the first 25. That student and every 25^th student thereafter are in the sample.  This is what type of sampling design?

• SRS
• Systematic
• Multistage
• Stratitfied

An SRS of 25 students is taken from each grade to form the sample.  This is what type of sampling design?

• Cluster
• SRS
• Stratified
• Multistage

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

Starting at 8:00 Monday morning the first 50 students entering the front doors are selected to be in the sample.  This is what type of sampling design? 

• Systematic
• Voluntary Response
• Cluster
• Convenience