Sampling and Observational Studies- TAKE 2

Dylan wants to know how the students at his school rate the cafeteria.  He surveyed his school's basketball team to rate the school cafeteria. Is this a biased sample of the school's population?

• Yes, because it is a convenience survey
• No, the basketball team has the smartest students
• Yes, because it's voluntary survey
• No, he should have asked the football team

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Identify the Population:
Wicomico County Public Schools randomly selected 230 teachers to find out which technology resource it's teachers feel is the most effective.

• 230 Teachers
• All Wicomico County Teachers
• Students
• Wicomico County Public Schools

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Identify the Sample:
A restaurant wants to know if their customers buy dessert when they eat out. As people leave the restaurant one evening, 20 people are surveyed at random. Eight people say they usually order dessert when they eat out. The restaurant concluded that most customers do not order dessert.

• 20 customers
• All customers
• 8 customers
• Dessert

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4

CCSS.HSS.ID.B.5

Ana wants to know the average student’s opinion of the tardy policy at her school. Which group of students should she survey in order to achieve the most accurate results?

• thirty students who are often tardy
• thirty students who are rarely tardy
• thirty of her friends
• thirty randomly selected students from her school

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

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You want to know what is the most favorite sport of 7th graders at BMS.  You ask 7th graders who want to participate to go to the office 5th period to complete a survey.  This is...

• Biased, because it is a convenience sample
• Unbiased
• Biased because it is an interval sample
• Biased because it is a volunteer sample

At a middle school, the 7th graders will conduct a survey to decide where they want 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

Unbiased sampling is:

• when you choose the group you think will give you the answer you want, accept volunteers or survey by convenience
• when any member of the population is equally likely to be chosen for the sample

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

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A school randomly chose ten English teachers and asked them which type of juice their students would prefer. Which reason best shows why this sample is biased?

• The sample didn't include students.
• The sample is too small.
• The sample can only be accurate if each teacher is included in the sample

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

a controlled study in which the researcher attempts to understand cause-and-effect relationships by assigning subjects to groups and deciding which treatments each group receives

• survey

• observational study

• experiment

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.5

a study in which the researcher attempts to understand cause-and-effect relationships without assigning subjects to groups or deciding which treatments each group receives

• survey

• observational study

• experiment

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